Making a mistake...

[Nataly 38]

How do you react when you realise you've made a mistake? A big one - you've made a total ass of yourself...

Hypothetical... Nothing juicy to tell I'm afraid. Well, nothing recent that I can think of!!

Personally, the thing I hate most about being wrong is that I stuck my neck out in the first place (when I should have checked/realised/thought-before-I-spoke, et cetera). It's not the shame of being wrong - it's the shameful way I asserted I was soooooo certain I was right... But I'm not one of those people who thinks they are always right... I speak/react FAR too quickly to be one of those!!!

"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
« Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. »
- my boss

[NWFlyer 2]

Own up to it, apologize if you've wronged someone else, do what you need to do to make the situation right, and figure out how to prevent it from happening again if you can.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[wmw999 2,534]

That, and try to find a way to laugh about it as well. I'm human, making mistakes comes with the territory. Making big mistakes just means that I took a bigger risk, which I don't really see as being too much of a problem.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[LuckyMcSwervy 0]

NWFlyer

Own up to it, apologize if you've wronged someone else, do what you need to do to make the situation right, and figure out how to prevent it from happening again if you can.

+ 1

Nothing wrong admitting your mistake. Mea Culpa...

Always be kinder than you feel.

[promise5 17]

Lol I hate that!!! But I will admit when confronted with overwhelming evidence that I was wrong I usually just say. " See I told you I was right you just misunderstood everything I was saying." Or something like that.

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[wetrock 0]

All the arguments i have seen over certain jumps going not as planned have been heated and blown way out of proportion. I find its best to wait at least an hour before confronting or entering a conversation about a jump if possible. Even simple conversations can go into weird places when adrenaline is involved.

[oldwomanc6 60]

wetrock

All the arguments i have seen over certain jumps going not as planned have been heated and blown way out of proportion. I find its best to wait at least an hour before confronting or entering a conversation about a jump if possible. Even simple conversations can go into weird places when adrenaline is involved.

This was about something that happened on a jump?

Huh?

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[NewGuy2005 53]

wetrock

All the arguments i have seen over certain jumps going not as planned have been heated and blown way out of proportion. I find its best to wait at least an hour before confronting or entering a conversation about a jump if possible. Even simple conversations can go into weird places when adrenaline is involved.

Sounds like you jump with the wrong people if it ever comes to this.

[normiss 851]

^^^^
Beautifully said as well!

[wetrock 0]

was not necessarily talking about myself but things i have seen over the years i have been at the dropzone. more of an occasional thing once a year maybe. but it looks like i made the wrong assumption that this was a skydiving related problem.

[wmw999 2,534]

What I left out was the part where I also in my mind endlessly second-guess myself later . But I try not to show it

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[shropshire 0]

Don't know ... I'll let you know if it happens

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[turtlespeed 226]

Nataly

How do you react when you realise you've made a mistake? A big one - you've made a total ass of yourself...

Hypothetical... Nothing juicy to tell I'm afraid. Well, nothing recent that I can think of!!

Personally, the thing I hate most about being wrong is that I stuck my neck out in the first place (when I should have checked/realised/thought-before-I-spoke, et cetera). It's not the shame of being wrong - it's the shameful way I asserted I was soooooo certain I was right... But I'm not one of those people who thinks they are always right... I speak/react FAR too quickly to be one of those!!!

Laugh really hard, and then look at the invisible person behind you and say, yes, you can burn the place down now.

Bwaahahahahaha

OK, probably not the best idea . . .

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[JerryBaumchen 1,436]

Hi Nataly,

I have always felt that if you do not make a mistake now and then, you are not doing anything.

JerryBaumchen

[Nataly 38]

JerryBaumchen

Hi Nataly,

I have always felt that if you do not make a mistake now and then, you are not doing anything.

JerryBaumchen

As usual, I agree with NWFlyer and Wendy (no big surprise there!! )

Also like this above... Nobody is right all the time, but if you try to be the best approach is probably to do nothing!!

Yeah... I'm quick to own up to my mistakes/errors. In fact, I've had to learn NOT to always accept responsibility too quickly because sometimes it takes time to properly digest/understand exactly what happened and if you immediately step up and take all the blame, some people are all too happy to deny responsibility when it turns out they were partly or indeed entirely at fault.

"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
« Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. »
- my boss