Owning Your Mistakes
Grasshopper Notes Podcast

Owning Your Mistakes

B1IntermediateOctober 4, 20262 min
  • One speaker
  • Relationships & psychology

Send us Fan Mail If you don't own your mistakes, you keep repeating them throughout your life. Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. Find the written versions of these podcasts on John's podcasting site: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1628038 "The Grasshopper" is the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and blog posts are his int...

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The title of this mini podcast is, Owning Your Mistakes. Something I've learned over the years is that one of the biggest mistakes we make is not knowing we're making a mistake, which creates an interesting problem. Because if I don't know I'm making a mistake, I'm probably going to keep making it.

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There's an old line you hear in just about every courtroom drama. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. And my guess is life works the same way too. Whether we know we're breaking the rules or not, there's usually a price to pay.

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So I got to wondering, how do we recognize the mistakes we are making when we're not even aware of them? One place to look is where we're losing in life. I found that most losses don't just happen.

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