Our Mistakes Can Prevent and Help Create New Possibilities
Psychology Today
by Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D.February 12, 2026
We all make mistakes. It is part of being human and fallible. Yet if we don't recognize the patterns in how we make mistakes and learn (and unlearn) from them, it's like building a castle of high hopes on a faulty foundation. This precarious and disappointing situation occurs when the parts needed to build the castle become disconnected from the proposed castle.
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Originally published on Psychology Today on 2/12/2026