Why Competent People Keep Making Stupid Mistakes

Everybody makes stupid mistakes. Even the most competent people make unethical decisions, errors, oversights, and omissions.

Thus, you cannot avoid stupid mistakes. However, it is possible to keep from making the same stupid mistakes repeatedly.

Unfortunately, many smart and competent individuals do not acknowledge mistakes and keep making them until the money runs out. For instance, movie studios remake the same horrible film several times, though the original flopped.

How to Escape the Cycle of Stupid Mistakes

Fortunately, you can escape the cycle of stupid mistakes by understanding and refining your decision-making process.

A few insights to the insights that can help you understand why human beings make bad decisions include:

1. Human beings are often lousy decision makers

In fact, Great Work Life estimates the average human makes a correct decision 58% of the time. Consequently, 42% of the decisions you make are wrong.

2. Therefore, you need to prepare to be wrong

In particular, always be ready to change your mind, revise work, and reverse course.