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Here’s How You Can Avoid Making The Same Mistakes
Mistakes are often good choices made in suboptimal situations that lead to unforeseen outcomes.
It is rare that we go into a situation and purposefully decide on a certain, negative outcome and act accordingly.
Most of the time we are on the right track, but we simply do not have all the information as to what will happen when we make a choice.
We cannot see into the future.
In hindsight, it was clear how we made the mistake, but being in the present situation it is impossible to foresee how some things turn out.
That being said, it is not the choice itself that is at fault but the situation that often leads to mistakes.
If you want to stop repeating the same mistakes then stop getting into situations that have higher chances of those same mistakes.
We are who we are and we will make the same choices in similar situations.
Obtaining large sums of money is a good example of this.
Many lottery winners do not change their spending habits but instead spend more on the same things.
They make the same choice but on a different scale.
We are all creatures of habit, and changing the kind of choice we make is much…
