Beneficial Mistakes

Mistakes are always present. They're present in our everyday lifes and they will be present always. However, the word "mistake" is often related with something bad. It's not necessarily bad. Evolution is a chain of mistakes that lead the species to become better. Evolution works by mutations, which are mistakes in the DNA of the individuals. For example, let's just imagine that for some odd reason, a sloth was born with wings. This would enable the sloth to get food from the trees more easily. It would also help it survive predators, and maybe even get a better partner. Therefore, this sloth would pass its odd winged DNA to its kids, and these kids would pass their own DNA and so on, until winged sloths would be much stronger than regular sloths and they would leave the regular sloths with no partners, so eventually the regular sloths would become extinct and sloths would evolve to have wings. All because one sloth was born a mutant. This can relate to us and to our minds. Let's just imagine that someone comes up with a different idea than the rest, and this idea was fairly interesting. This idea would be passed on to the other readers and then eventually most of the people would share the idea. Take a religion for example, if the religion is believeable and satisfying, then it will become stronger and stronger. Instead, if the idea is not too good, the person who came up with the idea will be excluded from the general group, preventing the idea from entering society's mind. We learn from our mistakes, even though sometimes they can hurt a lot and give little knowledge.