I feel bad when I realized I have made a mistake. However, I try to avoid the mistake from occurring in the future.

You have to be aware of your mistake and either know how to fix it or change what is wrong. We learn from our mistakes and that helps us make the correct decisions. Change is good ,habits are bad. If you don't change your habits you will carry on making the wrong choices.

It took me a long time to realize I'm part of the problem. I'm grateful that I came to that conclusion, because it also means that I'm part of the solution! It made me stop contributing to animal slaughter and abuse. I never really thought about the impact of me eating meat. It was just an itch in the back of my head, which I was accustomed to ignore. It wasn't an easy struggle, for my mind to accept the huge mistake I made all my life. I can imagine that for lots of people it's hard to admit that you have been fooled and made a mistake. I was not the change I wished to see. I learned that the only change I can expect, is changes I make within myself. A change of behavior. A change in thinking. 

Making changes is so difficult, many times we are desperate because something does not fit in our life, but getting out of comfort is not easy. Many people stay in jobs, in relationships, not risk.

The fear of failure is bad, but the fear of success is much more severe and, in my case, much more sneaky to discover.

I think people are like every other creature. We seek pleasure and avoid pain. Evolution uses this method to get us to stay alive long enough to reproduce. Simple. The only problem now is that we are capable of seeking almost unlimited pleasure at the expense of the future. Willpower and long-term planning can wait because I can resist anything but temptation.

On the other hand, as you suggest, we have a hard time changing our minds because that would require the realization that we were wrong. Oh, the humiliation, the guilt, the embarrassment! I can’t have that. I’ll just keep believing I’m right, thank you very much.

Last night, I knew I'd made a mistake when the car behind me was flashing me, and I realized I hadn't turned my lights on. I immediately turned them on. This hasn't happened before in my whole life. 

There was a cop car flashing his lights behind the car that flashed me, and we both pulled over, and I was sure the cop was coming for me, but he just zoomed past us both, obviously after a bigger criminal than me.

So one way we  can find out we have made a mistake is when a kind soul TELLS us. They are doing us a favor, and we must listen, and be grateful! Last night, I was.

Fear of failure is a MUCH bigger issue. It is what has always held me back from my most ambitious ideas, and I am here on Steem to create a blog for some creative expression that I have been putting off for years out of fear. I am very close now to being ready to fight that fear. And then take the consequences with a smile, even if it is the failure I feared lol.

Cheers. :)

Mistakes that I can learn from are great. Today I learned that I completely misunderstood how beneficiary rewards are displayed on past payouts on Steemit/Busy. Now I know that they aren't, they just vanish from the interface record entirely.

On the other hand, mistakes that I can't learn from because they come from careless error rather than misunderstanding are really annoying. Like putting three zeros instead of four in my Binance deposit memo. That just sucks.

Everyone wants to solve a world problem and be the hero. All they do is make it worse because they never get to the source or root. Every so called world problem is made up of smaller issues. They are the ones that need to be solved in order to take care of the big issues.

We are being condition to "comprehensive" solutions. The only way to solve a problem is comprehensive reform or doing nothing. 

I was educated that if you take care of the small things you never have to worry about the large things because they will take care of themselfs