learning from mistakes
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aprender de los errores
- Skills, fighting spirit, strategy, and most importantly, the ability to learn from mistakes.
Key thing is learning from mistakes, which not all politicians do.
- Key thing is learning from mistakes, which not all politicians do.
- That's that's experience, just learning from mistakes.
Examples
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However, it is important to learn from mistakes—which is the central theme for the Bulldogs this week.
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The key lies in acknowledging the mistakes when they occur, in learning from mistakes so that they can be turned into a positive asset, and in the process of correcting mistakes, learning to govern our country democratically.
Academic text (1990) -
When we learn from mistakes, we become better.
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Key thing is learning from mistakes, which not all politicians do.
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"However, intelligence requires the ability to learn from mistakes and failures.
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Game developers pledge to learn from mistakes due to their commitment to quality.
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Her premise is that we can learn from mistakes and that "everyone can grow and change through application and experience."
Academic text (2013) -
I'm a huge believer in learning from mistakes, but I think it's way better to learn from other people's mistakes, not your own.
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As a human capacity, reflection enables us to evaluate experience, learn from mistakes, repeat successes, revise, and plan.
Academic text (1998) -
Learning from mistakes is essential for learning from mistakes and development.
Synonyms
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Getting knowledge and skills from study, experience, or teaching
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from 'learning' (acquiring knowledge) + 'from' (indicating source) + 'mistakes' (errors), so the idea of acquiring understanding by reflecting on errors is immediately derivable. This source-of-learning construction is common in English and across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Learning from mistakes creates a clear image: you try something, make a mistake, notice it, and try again in a different way. That's the learning, so the phrase means 'getting better by using what you did wrong'.