Creating Opportunity through Mistakes

• I discussed in my previous blog about creating opportunity.

• Today I will discuss creating opportunity through mistakes.

• Creating opportunity through mistakes is a midway of creating opportunity and getting the opportunity.

• Opportunity through mistakes is one level harder than getting the opportunity and easier than creating opportunity.

What is creating opportunity through mistakes?

• It is basically when you miss an opportunity, because of your mistakes.

• And use your mistakes as an advantage to build another opportunity this is called creating opportunity through mistakes.

• It is about learned from the mistake and think about it, rectifying it and using it as advantages.

• To show this, I performed an activity which you can also try.

Activity: Drawing without eraser

• I gathered some friends (4 friends). They were given a piece of paper and were asked to draw on it one by one but not to draw a full drawing, which they thought in their mind. One friend draws first, the other make changes in drawing and turn it into something creative. Like this, all four friends draw one by one. This was repeated until something creative and different image was found.

• As you think about what other friend have thought in their mind you also learn to read the mind or read people, which is very helpful.

• We are the author of our life. We write our life but it cannot be erased once we wrote something in the book of our life. But we can always rectify it and create opportunity.

• This activity is an example, we can use our mistakes as an advantage to build something new.

• But learning from mistakes is also important.

Real life example:

• If you are asked to create something, may be a device for a company in an interview. But your invention failed and your company suffered a little loss of their product. But then you used that wasted device to create something else, making changes in it. So you may pass in the interview.

• This is another example how to learn from mistakes and use it for your benefit.

• Here you may be rejected 1^st but then thinking deep about it, not accepting failure, and passion for building/renovating it to a useful device can help you a lot.

• So you get an opportunity and if by your mistakes you fail, don’t stop trying, just think how you can build it to your own advantage.

• Now if you get any opportunity and even you miss it, then you have an advantage of rectifying it and gaining it back (creating opportunity through mistakes). 

(Image Courtesy of Divya Prasad)