We all make mistakes

There is a well-known phrase: "To err is human. I'm sure just about everyone has heard it at some point, but is it true?

Let's just think about it: What is an error?

In the Duden dictionary, we find the following synonyms for error: error of thought, wrong action/conception, misjudgement, mistake, error of judgement, misjudgement, deception, fallacy, aberration, misjudgment, oversight; lapse in literary language; error in poetry; faux pas in colloquial language.

These are all not so pleasant things, are they?

How does a mistake come about?

In contrast to a lie, where the truth has been deliberately distorted, an error arises unintentionally from false information or faulty conclusions.
Systematically occurring errors are called cognitive distortions.

Now we have come very close to the story after all. If it wasn't a deliberate lie, then our error is based on misinformation.

So we do ask ourselves where we get the information that leads us to our actions and opinions. And there are several possibilities:

If we have to react very quickly, the necessary information comes directly from the subconscious, without involving the mind. If we are walking across a meadow and the bull Kunibert, the farmer's pride and joy, reacts somewhat indignantly about our red shirt, then it would not be very useful if we now ponder for a long time what is best to do. Here flight is the only salutary reaction.

Then, of course, there are the decisions that we make pretty much only with our mind. For example, when we make a really big investment and think carefully beforehand about what we want and then consciously choose the option that best meets those criteria.

These are, of course, two extreme situations; most people fall somewhere in between.

The vast majority of decisions we make are based on our subconscious programming and therefore past experiences.
In many cases we will not even notice the reasons why we decided the way we did.

If one deals a little with advertising and propaganda, then one recognizes very well, how here at our subconscious buttons is turned.
But this is also a topic of its own.

Now if we look at all this, we can say that we make our decisions based on our conscious and subconscious information,
and if these decisions were not correct, it was not the thought process itself that was wrong, but the underlying information.

Now, error also has a positive side, it always leads us closer to the truth. Because once recognized, we can recognize the non-serving information and replace it with more serving information. So you can say, in error lies the key to truth.

But I would like to mention another very important source of information, which is used far too seldom. It is intuition, which we reach when we switch off our mind chatter. We then reach information on a higher level or in other words, information from the Universal Field of Consciousness.
And here, in my experience, there is no mistake.

Because the silence is not empty, it is full of answers.