René Girard said that we borrow our desires from others. He also adds : All human desires exist because individuals mimic the desires of the masses.
This phenomenon has a massive implication in the way the masses treat mistakes of the few. If someone decides to walk on an unconventional path of doing something and fails , the masses get great joy.
Such a system rewards “conformity” and punishes “nonconformity”.
This makes the lives of individuals who don’t really want to be a part of the herd and want to make their own tribe, very difficult. If the few make mistakes, the masses will laugh at them , ridicule them , bully them.
But, the counter-intuitive argument is that , to make less mistakes/no mistakes , one needs to make a LOT of mistakes. That is the only way to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Every mistake is a learning which teaches the few what not to do, SUCCESS is about minimizing the error rate.
The only way to ensure success is to make the blue circle as big as possible, the more you know , the faster you will succeed.
The more you know → the lesser mistakes you make
the lesser mistakes you make → more likelihood of success than someone who makes more mistakes than you
the only way to make less mistakes → make a lot of mistakes
Do everything that you think will get you to the success you dream of. If you do it , you will make mistakes , don’t give up when u makes mistakes and feel like a loser. Keep doing the work until you minimize your error rate , then you will see great success.
There’s a famous saying that came from facebook ( move fast and break things ) , the saying doesn’t mean “fail more” as understood in popular cultures, instead it is the best proxy for saying learn more and learn faster than others, which leads to making less errors than others.
DO SOMETHING THAT THE MASSES AREN’T DOING AND YOU WILL SUCCEED.
You always win or you learn, you never loose