Trial and Error.....Is it important?

Trial and error leads to success. Advice can be helpful but unless you actually get the bruises and the scars of your mistakes you can't really understand where you ae going wrong in my opinion. Try telling a child that the flame on a fire will burn. Ok they will understand that there is something bad going to happen but until they really feel the heat they will not know what 'burn' means It's great to receive advice and we should consider it from all the different angles and then plod on, if necessary, tripping up too. Then we will know what not to do next time.

Hi ChrysanTflower, I think trial and error still has a big way especially for a beginner. More so if that is about practical subject and not theories. All we received from internet are theories. And sometimes we received a few ways to solve a single problem. Some problem solution also available or applicable in certain condition or country. So we still have to try it anywhere to see the efficiency of that methods. Just like when we want to learn to drive a car. We can get all kind of theories on how to be a good driver. But we still to do some practice and it is some kind of trail and error too. Am I correct to give this example?

As far as I am concerned we mature with our experiences.As we grow older we are mellowed with the trial and errors.We are our best advisors and generally not others who definitely have some ulterior motives in advising including the book writers who like to see their coffers filled up fast with the sales of advising books.

Hi ChrysanTflower, According to me, Success and failure - 2 sides of the same coin Trial and error are usually the prime means of solving life’s problems. Yet many people are afraid to undertake the trial because they’re too afraid of experiencing the error. They make the mistake of believing that all error is wrong and harmful, when most of it is both helpful and necessary. Error provides the feedback that points the way to success. Only error pushes people to put together a new and better trial, leading through yet more errors and trials until they can ultimately find a viable and creative solution. To meet with an error is not to fail, but to take one more step on the path to final success. No errors means no successes either. As Thomas Edison said, -Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.... Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.... Sametime, we can also learn from other mistake which is giving an another experience to us and saving our time. Failure is a learning opportunity, but only if you let it be. More often than not failure is seen as something that should be hidden and avoided and never admitted to. If we never fail, we haven't set our goals high enough! Happy Postings! Have a Great time!

i do think success takes much work. and we all will make mistakes along our way to success.there is no easy way .did you know success is failure turned inside out? yes i think to be a wise business person you have to know both sides of the road. the key is to pay attention and learn from those failires and mistakes .if you do not you will end up no where fast.

As far as am concerned Trial & Error is the way to go, but there is no harm in asking for a advice from the right person at the right time. Trial and Error takes it own course of time and rightly capitalized it can give better results plus one gains his own experience. Yes today getting an advice is much more easier now, this actually can not the charm of experiencing a situations on the face with any help from outside.

I think no matter how much knowledge someone gets from other people, what works for some does not necessarily work for others. Some people give bad advice. I think no matter what, we all have to live and learn by our own experiences. The school of hard knocks, live and learn, when at first you don't succeed, try try again....some of the quotes we use that will never disappear.

let take doing programming coding for example, i think is very improtant to use trial and error to stimulate whether the coding logic able to work out or not. But if daily routine prespective, is really a wasting time as we will try to get help from other first before we really go to trial and error.

I think they are important.The error should be the lessons to everybody not make them again but the trial should support to everybody try again.

I think its still important for us to make a trial and error. Learning something to achieve successful has to through not easy way. May be up to each of us to choose the best way to make our trial and error not too wasting time. We have to do more efficient and be predicted.Or find the other way your trial and error to save the time. I remember the motto that practise makes perfect.

In business, that is probably right. In medicine, its guided by principles and ethics. Whatever the case may be, there will some form of trial and error especially if you are just in the beginning. I guess the harsh reality is there is no fast way to success aside from sound judgment: which trial and error tests will get me to my goal. Easier said than done, eh?