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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
10 Science-Backed Benefits of Meditation
What is Meditation?
How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
10 Science-Backed Benefits of Meditation
What is Meditation?
Benefits of Mindfulness: Mindful Living Can Change Your Life
Mindfulness 101: A Beginner's Guide
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Hi, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, we're going to
talk about reframing the idea of
what it means to make a mistake.
So here's a quote by the thought leader,
Nassim Taleb, who says, "A mistake
is not something to be determined
after the fact, but in light of the
information available to that point."
I'm going to say that one more time
and really let that one sink in.
"A mistake is not something to be
determined after the fact, but in light of
the information available to that point."
So often our conceptualization
of a mistake is based on what
ensued after we made a decision.
We made the decision the best
we could, and then something
happened that made us perceive
that that must have been a mistake.
And while on some level you could argue
that, okay, well, the decision I made
led to this experience, so objectively,
it could be perceived as a mistake.
All of that is taken into consideration
with the information that you have
in hindsight, which is not the
information you have available in
the moment of making a decision.
And so to label it a mistake can only
be done when you have all of this extra
data that you didn't have available to
you at that point, which is one of the
reasons I, I really love this quote.
Which is that you can't actually
evaluate a mistake after
the fact, because it's over.
The only thing that you can evaluate
as a mistake is if you have an
opportunity to align with your heart
and what feels true and what you
know to be true and right in this
moment, but you choose something else.
I think that's a much better lens
to view making a mistake through.
And it also, I think, cuts ourselves
some slack, recognizing that the best
we can do each moment is to align
with, with what feels true, to assess
the data that we have available to
us, the resources that we have to meet
this moment, to really feel into it
deeply and to think through it deeply.
And then with all of that go, this
is what I believe is right right now.
And if we do that, that's not a mistake.
What follows, it's not up to us.
We can't control it.
But what we can control is assessing the
situation, assessing what information we
have at hand and making sure that we align
to what feels right for us right now.
And if we do that, then I believe
it's impossible to make a mistake.
Things might go wrong.
They might be painful.
We might have unanticipated outcomes.
But that's the way of life.
That's the way of the universe.
Our job is to meet this moment fully,
assess what is right, right now, align
ourselves to that, and then let go.
Thank you for your practice.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
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