It had come to a bit of a shock to me when I looked at the feedback that was provided alongside the Lit review that was assigned for ASTU 100. As it turns out, I had made a very silly mistake in mixing up my scholars which lead to a lot of confusion and frustration over the weekend. But I digress. I’ve been wondering, through studying life narratives in our ASTU 100 class, what the true fascination was with life narratives. Why were so many people enthralled in the lives of others? After some reflection of what had happened with that ASTU paper, I’ve come to the conclusion that readers enjoy the content provided in life narratives, not only for the adventures; but also for the lessons that can be learned.
In trying to comfort myself, I looked towards the analysis of making mistakes. I’ve found out that even doctors worry about when they make mistakes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUbfRzxNy20). Dr. Brian Goldman introduces two forms of guilt: one good, one bad. The good kind of guilt is a guilt in which you understand that you’ve made a mistake and you make amends and promise to never do something like that ever again. Whereas, the bad kind of guilt is shown to make you feel like you are your mistake. Is there truly a need to become perfect? I was watching a video by a youtuber by the username: CGPGrey: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU) In my dread, I was hoping that maybe someday a robot or a drone could take over my work so that I could live carelessly on an island. (Though this is highly idealist.) CGPGrey expresses that soon, all of the jobs on the market will be taken over shortly so long as technology is increasing; the robots don’t need to be perfect either, they just need to be better than us. No matter if you work in a white collar job or a blue collar job. However, what I’ve come to understand from Dr. Goldman’s talk was that it’s more important to learn from your mistakes than to let the idea of being totally perfect to haunt you. Mistakes happen.
So should we really be overly scared of the implications of mistakes?
Perhaps.
And that, kids, is the conclusion to blog posts until the new year