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Mistakes make your brain grow
Last week my 6 year old daughter Keziah said something very profound to me as we were discussing something that I had just purchased. I had make a mistake in its description and apologized when she corrected me and said "Don't worry mommy, mistakes make your brain grow"... MIC DROP. I mean I paused and asked her to repeat that again a few times as it hit me like a lightening bolt.
We get so caught up in not wanting to make mistakes when in fact mistakes are only there to help us grow and expand our existence on earth.
What would be have done if we never tried driving, or tried new foods or started a new job. We would be stuck, stagnate and going nowhere fast.
This was a moment that I will say has changed how I see things as now I'm no longer worried about making mistakes as I deem it as a lesson to be learned and for my brain to grow.
Be blessed by these 4 words....Mistakes make your brain grow
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Hey, it's your girl, Selina Davis host of Butt-Naked wisdom coming to you with another episode. And today I want to tell you something really interesting that my daughter said to me a couple of days ago, she said to me, while we were talking, we had purchased something from the store. And what I thought like a My Little Pony shaped light was actually a unicorn life. So she asked me about and we were just talking about and I said, Yeah, the My Little Pony light. And she said, My mom it's a unicor. And then I said, Oh, my bad, I m sorry. And then she said, Don t worry, mom, mistakes make yo r brain grow. I was like, What d d you say? She said, mistake, Mommy, make your brain grow. o I paused. And I said, that sup r profound, or what you've ju t now said to me, and it ju t really, really triggered t e thought of every mistake, r failure in my mind, that I' e ever done in my life has on y made me grow, has only allow d me to either become a bad pers n has allowed my life to evolv, has made me allowed me allow d me to make the right decisi n for my life, or allowed me o really think about whether I want that situation in my li e or not. So what she sa d mistakes, make your brain gr w is something I want us to thi k about and meditate on today. I think it's really important th t we are as human beings, ve y afraid of failing r disappointing ourselves a d people around us are ju t literally making the mistakes f not knowing things and getti g things wrong. None of tho e things matter when you literal y take what she said to hear, because unless we trial thin s unless we do things unless we o out of our comfort zone, unle s we start without knowing unle s we begin without t e prerequisites of knowing all t e information. We never will gr w by literally I go to universi y or you go to university, y u don't have no idea about t e subject that you're about o study. But you go there with t e aim at the end to get a degre. That means you have to learn t e information, that means you ha e to trial, what they're saying t means you may have to test wh t they're saying. It means th t you may have to fail at some f the subjects in order for you, your chewer to or lecturer o correct your mistakes or yo r assignment. So it's very much n area that we don't need to e afraid of in our lives at al. When you think about th t statement that she said, e don't need to worry about, y u know, failing or having a fe r that we are going to fail t something and it's the same wh n we start driving, we sta t driving, we make mistakes, so e unfortunately, may result in a d they will, you know, neck to o r car. But ultimately, the more e do it, the more we learn, t e more we make those potenti l mistakes, we learn from tho e things. And it only allows o r brain to grow as she sai, because we are furthering t e expansion of the knowledge th t we are bringing into our o n selves. So I just really want o encourage you that that thi g that she said to me is ver, very profound. And it doesn t need deep, deep analysis wh n you really analyze your life a d look at all the areas of yo r life where you may feel. And I m going to say that you may fe l that you have failed, whe e others may have pointed out yo r failure to you. Don't listen o it. Don't accept it as a failure. Just accept as yo r next level of growth, that y u are expanding the way that y u think. And you are expandi g your thought patterns. Peop e may not understand where you' e going. People may not like whe e you're going, people may e jealous or where you're goin. But ultimately, you need to e in that seat for your o n personal life and your o n journey. And you need to mo e that journey forward f r yourself. And whether oth r people around you except whe e you're going or what you' e doing. You need to contin e because I'm going to tell y u every time you want to mo e forward, things people situati n are always going to come a d disrupt that mindset of your. destruct where you're goi g Shake what is that you a e planning to do on the thin s that you have done. B t ultimately you need to be sol d within yourself about what y u are going for and what yo r achievements are and why you a e doing what you're doing. You' e wise a very important. Yo r wires will determine t e longevity of what you're doin. But ultimately, I want us o really look at every single ar a of your life and I'm telling y u this do you have only gro n more, you've only grown as a better human being, you ha e only grown as a much be t partner as much better frien, because of the potenti l mistakes. And I'm gonna ke p saying it is potential mistake. Because I think everything s about learning and establishi g and exploring and allowi g ourselves to be in th t teachable place where everythi g is a lesson to be learned. So I just wanted to encourage y u today that mistakes make yo r brain grow. And I want to s y again, mistakes, make your bra n grow. So stop looking at yo r mistakes, stop looking at wh t potentially is your failures, s things that will stop you fr m moving forward or redoing wh t you started. But continue. Don t give up. Don't give up n yourself. Don't give up on tho e around you. Just keep pushi g yourself forward, loving n yourself and becoming the be t version of who you are. G d bless you speak to you soon a d look forward to speaking to y u on the next episod Be sure to follow me on https://www.instagram.com/selinacdavis/