Why I need to reflect....

“We don’t learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.”


I have always been someone who looks forward, I don't like to look back. The future is always ahead, keep moving forward, upward and onward and all that...

Why have I refrained from looking back, what has stopped me, it wasn't until lately that I realized, I was afraid.

Afraid to look back and see all the mistakes.

After all mistakes are bad things, aren't they?

So what changed lately? What made me see that looking back was important? It's actually something very interesting...

I've been teaching my students how to code, and do you know what the most important thing I've learned about coding is? It's not only about math, and linear thinking. It's not only about being cool on the computer, controlling what a character is doing. It's something even bigger than that...

I learned about trying, about taking a risk...

You know what happens when you take a risk, sometimes a fail. Sometimes you get it wrong.

It's the next step that is important.

In coding, after you make your mistake, after your run a code and it doesn't work, do you know what you do next? What I have had to teach everyone of my students, what I have to remind them every time they make a mistake? After you make a mistake, the most important thing to do...

Look at that mistake, take it apart, reflect..

Why didn't it work?

Where did it go wrong?

What can you change?

How can you make it better?

It was after had said this a few dozen times, that I realised these question are not only for mistakes, they can be applied to many different aspects of life... they are for everything...

I have often thought that there is no such thing as perfection, everything has a flaw, everything can be better.

Isn't it when we are comfortable that we stop trying, and then we stop growing...

When we stop growing, we stop improving...

So, here I am, starting a blog, not striving for perfection, but to create a place for myself...

A place to live,

A place to reflect,

A place to love...