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Admitting Your Mistakes

By Nicole McCance @nicole_mccance · On February 4, 2014

A professor that I know, who is a perfectionist, recently was sharing with me that the other day during a lecture a student asked her a question and she didn’t know the answer. She thought to herself, “I should know the answer, since I am teaching the class.” She realized in the moment that she did not fully prepare for the lecture.

Mistakes

Typically, she would never admit to her class if she didn’t know something. However, on this day, she decided to admit to the class of a hundred students that she wasn’t prepared and didn’t have all the materials ready. The most wonderful thing happened when she admitted her mistake. By her being vulnerable and showing her student she had flaws, it gave her students permission to make mistakes. It’s interesting that we tend to pretend that we are perfect and hide our short-comings and weaknesses from the world rather than embracing our human-ness.

By making it acceptable for her, as a professor, to make mistakes it made it acceptable for her students to do so too. Mistakes are one of the best ways to learn; they are a normal and acceptable – but more importantly a necessary part of life.

Admitting our mistakes give us a chance to be vulnerable.

Today in my yoga class I was trying to master the art of a hand stand. Needless to say, many of us were falling over. The instructor said, “Falling is a sign of courage.” This was inspirational to me and stuck with me. Those who tried to do a hand stand at least had the courage to try rather than those who refused to do it for fear of failing or looking bad. The latter group never pushed themselves passed
their comfort level which, and so never allowed themselves to grow.

Our mistakes shape us, admit them and grow with them.

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Nicole McCance

Nominated, RBC Women Entrepreneur of the Year, Nicole McCance M.A. is a fully licensed Psychological Associate. Her services are covered under extended health care and she is licensed to diagnose mental disorders. Nicole is also an author of the best-selling book 52 Ways to Beat Depression Naturally. She has over 9 years of formal university education and has completed a certificate program in trauma and recovery from Harvard Medical School. She has a M.A in Counselling Psychology from the University of Toronto, a B.A. in Criminology and a B.A with Honours in Psychology from Carleton University. Nicole owns Nicole McCance Psychology, which has over 10 counselling locations providing both individual and couples counselling across the GTA. Over 120 individuals and couples receive counselling every month through Nicole McCance Psychology. She has been providing counselling and assessment services for the past 10 years across North America and in Russia. She has been a frequent contributor to media outlets such as CP24, CTV News, CTV National, Global TV,City TV, CBC News, Rogers, CBC Radio, ABC Spark, E!, the Toronto Star and Canadian Living. You can visit her website at nicolemccance.com.

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