March 26, 2007

• Internet Island Topic Post #23: Making Mistakes

  Internet Island Topic Post #22, er, I mean #23: Making Mistakes

  This time our topic is going to be about mistakes. Instead of asking specific questions, (but including a series of questions to either answer individually or to get you writers and would be writers thinking) I want you to read the following quotations and questions, and then create a blog entry in your own style (as you usually do) about a mistake, either personal or global. How do you “feel” about the concept of the “mistake”. This word gets thrown around a lot in the workplace. Especially when something goes wrong. The fantastic successes are never noted or noticed because they work. Everyone zeroes in on the mistake.

  The Topic Post will last approximately two weeks to a month. Please enter the link or date of your Internet Island Topic Entry for this post in a comment here. If you are creating a link, make sure you link to the page with the “comments” box and not the page with five entries. (HERE IS A TUTORIAL ABOUT HOW TO MAKE LINKS.) The purpose of Internet Island Topic Posts is to help get the members of the Internet Island Blogring to exchange comments and get to know each other. Please check back periodically for new entries throughout the posting period.  If you post a topic entry, please make an attempt to visit the other Islanders who do so as well. It is also a good idea to post the link to the Topic Entry in your own entry so that other interested parties can come here. You can copy/paste the Topic Post links right here in this entry into your own weblog entry box.

  “REST IN PEACE. THE MISTAKE SHALL NOT BE REPEATED.” anonymous

  “Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” writer Pearl S. Buck
  “Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.” writer Oscar Wilde
  “The first mistake of Art is to assume that it’s serious.” music critic Lester Bangs
  “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  “Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.” playwright Anton Chekhov
  “Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.” poet Ralph Waldo Emerson
  “I made one great mistake in my life…recommending that atom bombs be made.” scientist Albert Einstein
  “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors…are the portals of discovery.” writer James Joyce
   
  “Everyone makes mistakes”

  Or do they?
   
  Have you ever made a mistake?

  Did you ever do the right thing?

  Did you ever do the right thing and somebody you respected thought it was a mistake?

  Are mistakes merely tools of learning? Do we “Learn from our mistakes.”

  Are mistakes necessarily “bad”? Should we indicate where mistakes are made?

  What is a “happy accident”?

  What is the “greatest mistake” in history or memory?

  Could someone’s greatest mistake be another’s greatest victory? (Ask Napoleon about that one.) (Edit: 2/20 5:48. Unintentionally, I had Napoleon’s name spelled incorrectly, a pretty blaring mistake, and I just caught it right now.)

  Is the concept of “blame” associated with the concept of the “mistake”? Should it be?

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  xhandwrittenlettersx 2/17 xhandwrittenlettersx (Entry for #22) 2/17 PacifismPlease #1 2/17 PacifismPlease #2 2/17 Kristenmomof3 2/17 PacifismPlease #3 2/17 PacifismPlease #4 2/17 thereluctantsinger 2/17 PacifismPlease #5 PacifismPlease#6 Zeal4Living 2/18 prettynosyarentu 2/18 adrianluzky 2/18 PacifismPlease #7 PacifismPlease#8 Building A Mystery 2/19 sherrytwinklz 2/20 briannebrucker 2/20 ladywolf aq 2/23 PacifismPlease#9 pogueatl 3/2 screaminginmyhead 3/2 writergoddess 3/3 What a Wonderful New World 3/4 soccershades7 3/4 BoureeMusique 3/5 davesshelterfromthestorm 3/6 ladyblue 3/8 baldmike2004 3/9 mourning2dancing 3/11 zeal4living 3/12 YOU ONLY HAVE TO WRITE ONE TOPIC. OR MORE IF YOU WANT.  IT’S ALL UP TO YOU! Remember, the tabs at the top of theInternet Island Blogring Page will “sort” the members by latest post, date joined,  and alphabetical Username. Use the ring page to find new Islanders, or older ones you might not have visited in a while. It’s OUR Island, and we’re a great group of people with different interests, fantastic stories, and wonderful lives, and we have a great deal of love for our fellow man. There are no “right” or “wrong” responses to any Topic Post for Internet Island. All responses are just as valid as any other response.

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