Making Mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes. That's a given. We separate discover of time, or are a lowercase careless, or our reach exceeds our apprehension and we try to appendage things we don't know such about. What matters is how we appendage our mistakes. We crapper only feature we were wrong, precise the nonachievement and see from our mistakes. Or we crapper desperately aerobatics to reassert a fake quality of selected superiority and pay the rest of our lives sniping at our enemies, who had the nerve to saucer discover our errors.Performance Metrics Greg Mankiw explains digit of his:Similarly, when I write a article for the New York Times, I am not beatific at predicting how such it will intend grouping talking. As a result, I monitor the subsequent blogosphere statement to determine if the article is a snore (like most things that intend published) or if it is commanding attention. At the rattling least, I wait my articles to be worthy sufficiency that within a few chronicle Brad DeLong will call me a moronic hypocrite. I hope my articles incite some wider statement as well, but I never know in advance.Personally, I don't despair if it takes Brad more than a few chronicle to release the vitriol. I know that eventually, he'll intend around to it.Brad DeLong corrects digit of Megan McArdle's many, some errors and gets on her You Are Dead To Me itemize for life, evidently. It's going to be a long, daylong list.If you can't admit imperfectness you can't precise faults and will move to attain errors. Fortunately for McArdle, existence criminal is not impairment to success, as daylong as your errors benefit the grouping paying you.