Mistakes: Source of learning, inspiration and energy

Throughout history, mistakes have been an integral part of humans’ everyday life. Unfortunately, they have always been deemed intolerable and regarded as shortcomings with absolutely no benefit or positive value. This is despite the fact that mistakes have resulted in some of the world's greatest inventions, many of utmost vitality in our daily lives. In addition, the entire atomic theory was developed through correction of the mistakes and misconceptions made by one scientist by the next and so on, until the final model was theorized, which quite possibly just hasn't had its inadequacies corrected… yet. Furthermore, due to mistakes being treated such by the vast majority, the fear of making them arises, potentially leading to perfectionism which in turn can have severe detrimental and sometimes fatal effects on human beings