According to this recent article in Scientific American, the three types are 1) the Dunning-Kruger type, in which the protagonist vastly overestimates his skill or knowledge, 2) impulsive mistakes, and 3) mistakes of inattention. I've never made any of those, have you?
Posts from This Journal by “mistakes” Tag
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QotD: The Edge
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. - Hunter S.…
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QotD: Your Path
Your confusion is not pathology, it is path. It has something to show you that clarity could never reveal. The nature of chaos is wisdom, but you…
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QotD: Chodron on Reacting to Catastrophe
We might think, as we become more open, that it's going to take bigger catastrophes for us to reach our limit. The interesting thing is that, as we…
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QotD: Enlightened Deep Down
It’s fantastic to look at people and see that they really, deep down, are enlightened. They’re It. They’re faces of the divine. And they look at…
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QotD: Forgiveness
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. --Mahatma Gandhi
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QotD: Forgiveness
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he, himself, must pass. --Lord Herbert
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