What Are Mistakes Beneficial Or Harmful

Mistakes. Harmful or Beneficial?

Have you ever wondered how the microwave came to be? Or how some scientists were able to find ancient artifacts? Was it luck or just a hunch? Mistakes are a key part of discovery. Without mistakes we may have never been asking ourselves the questions we ask today? How did it happen?

First and foremost, Mistakes offer an idea or thought one may have never thought of. For example, in "How a Melted Bar of Chocolate Changed Our Kitchens," Percy's chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Do you think we would have the microwaves we use today if that chocolate bar had not melted? Due to Percy's mistake, he investigated what made the bar of chocolate melt. Paragraph 16 of "How a Melted Bar of Chocolate Changed Our Kitchens"
Think about it, as a child you made plenty of mistakes. You would get punished and idealy never make the same mistake again. In comparison, 19th century Scottish athour Samuel Smiles quoted, "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do: and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." So in addition to never making the same mistake again, refer to "Lost Cities, Lost Treasure." An adventurer in 1871 named Heinrich Schliemann was seeking the lost land of Troy. Schliemann came across a British archaeologist named Frank Calvert who owned part of a site in Turkey. Calvert had Schliemann fund and share his work becasue he did not have enough money to dig there. This was Calvert's mistake. The discovery he made from his mistake of inviting Schliemann into his work was the disrespect Schliemann showed toward the artifacts that laid undisturbed for centuries. Also, in paragraph eight it reads, "Schliemann took the credit for what was found, and Calvert's contribution was almost forotten." This excerpt makes it clear that Calvert made a mistake and he learned from his mistake and probably never made it again. As we all do on a daily