How worried should you be about dumb mistakes?

[David777]

I've occasionally made stupid mistakes all my life though have always been keen to learn from mistakes and reduce them. Especially if it is public and very much so if whatever is at a workplace in a team situation. When not public or important, like coding software on my computer, may impatiently repeat mistakes rapidly a couple times before pausing...ok, enough of that and proceed more carefully. Ever log into your computer in the early morning incorrectly using a password for something else, and then without paying attention to the field, type it into your login name field instead causing you to do so a third time with a humble smile? On the other hand, when we have just spent a couple hours at work entering data into some worksheet, we are not likely to exit without bothering to carefully save the file first.

The less important whatever is, the more novel, the more distracted one is, the more impatient, the more worried one is that day about something, the more likely, a mistake may occur.

 

[StarSong]

On the other hand, when we have just spent a couple hours at work entering data into some worksheet, we are not likely to exit without bothering to carefully save the file first.

That's why I save various versions as I slog through the process.

 

[Packerjohn]

I say, "Do not sweat the small stuff." I also say, "Nothing of this will matter in 100 years from now." Take this advice from a "good ole' country boy that sure made a lot of mistakes in his life but what the hack, I'm still here and I'm still breathing and that's a lot more than I can say for a lot of people I went with in elementary school. Better to be here and keep making mistakes then to be gone and be employed "pushing all those daisies."