How to be better

So, I want to highlight a little insight when I and my friends went to this community this saturday. He talked about how to be better in English, speaking and listening. For sure, the things that he talked can apply to a lot of different fields, I mean not only his insight can make you be better in English, but also in other areas. So here it is the main point that i get from his speech :

First, embrace the mistake. Make friend with them. Human is always making mistakes, that is why they called human. Like a quote that said, "err is human", so getting wrong and doing mistakes is okay, as long as you learn from it and didn't do the same mistake again. Do not try to be perfect. You will end up creating a lot of mistakes if you try to be perfect. Just learn to be better from your previous mistakes. Practice a lot, in order to be better and more prepared, not to be perfect, because no one is perfect. Nobody.

Second, Set the mindset to embrace the chance and challenges. Be courageous, but do not think too highly of yourself, be humble. Accept the chance and challenges that were given to you and do it well. You know your own capabilities, so you should know whether to accept the challenges or not. Evaluate your own self when facing the challenges. You can choose to accept the ones that you think you can overcome.

Third, Accept the fact that there are always people that better than you, smarter, richer, higher in position and status, wiser and all. So no matter hard you try there is always others above you. Do not compare your progress with them. Do not chase them, chase your past self-achievement. Compete with yourself, not others. There is only you in this world, so it much easier to be better than yourself than others. Compete with the past you.

Fourth, Teaching others. The more you give the more you earn. By teaching, you can gain more insight from the subject that you teach. You will know better after you give the knowledge to someone. It's like practice, the more you teach, the more you know.

The last but not least, remember, all that happened in your life, the good and bad ones, is because of God. If you have this kind of mindset, when you achieve something, you won't be arrogant. Likewise, when you failed, you won't be stressful because you know God is behind everything despite your hard work. If you have this kind of thinking, you will always try harder because you believe God always behind every event in your life.