13147: Your Most Useful Reaction To A Simple Mistake

Raw transcript:

we sometimes spend an inordinate amount
of
effort blaming
ourselves for mistakes that we make and
feeling disappointed and depressed and
like we
failed I’ve got some advice for you on
the real value of what a simple mistake
can be and we’ll explore that in this
episode of the vo Heroes
podcast
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sometimes our first instinct is to just
beat ourselves up when we make a simple
mistake and we make all kinds of
different levels of mistake we make
egregious mistakes we make simple
mistakes we make honest mistakes we make
really devastating mistakes we make
careless mistakes all of these
mistakes can lead us us to feel less
than to lead us to feel like we are just
awful we shouldn’t be doing this it it
gives rise to episodes of impostor
syndrome and so much more and the the
biggest lesson I’ve learned about
mistakes especially ones that you
wouldn’t even have known you were making
because you didn’t have enough
information or you didn’t have enough
experience are that their gifts Their
Blessings for those of you that are
looking for blessings um they are
learning opportunities that you should
treasure there’s no shame in making an
honest mistake a mistake uh of
inexperience uh there’s no shame in
making any mistake truly even ones that
you should have known better but the
ones that are early on in your process
as you’re learning something or uh
you’ve only done it a few times and you
haven’t quite burnished in the muscle
memory of a process or or a procedure
those are moments that feed you those
are moments that you learn what not to
do and they’re really
valuable don’t dismiss that value in
your effort to beat yourself up first of
all it’s
unnecessary what you’ll find is
experienced voice talent and actors when
they flub a line or they make a mistake
or something happens where they have to
do a pickup they’ll just simply say
let’s pick that up as opposed to oh I’m
so sorry I I don’t know what’s wrong
with me today I just I’m just they don’t
beat themselves up and they don’t waste
the time of the producers and the
directors that they’re working with uh
in doing that they just simply let’s
start that again let’s do a pickup let’s
do that again they just go with it it
happens all the time even to the most
experienced people and if you don’t have
experience if you haven’t encountered a
certain situation and you make a mistake
you make a misjudgment a miscalculation
it’s okay in fact it’s a good thing I
know it’s hard to imagine that something
that isn’t a success could be a good
thing but imagine the value of knowing
now what not to do right does this make
sense to you is this something that uh
that’s a reframe for you as my friend
Michael costr says you know there’s a
reframe available for you for that um
let me know in the comments below I’d
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think might be beating themselves up a
little bit too much for their honest
mistakes I’m David H Lawrence the 17th I
thank you so much for watching and for
listening and I will see you in the next
episode of the vo Heroes
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podcast

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