Atychiphobia

When you read the title of this post, I wonder how many of you knew what the word meant.

Honestly, I had never heard of that type of phobia prior to doing research for this posting.

The word comes from two Greek terms; atyches - "unfortunate" and phobos - "fear".
It's the fear of making mistakes; literally, an unfortunate fear.

I found myself asking the questions this week, "Why are we so very afraid to make mistakes?"

Your friendly neighborhood blogger learns by doing things the hard way. I make mistakes; daily. Most of the time I learn from said mistakes. Sometimes not. Part of the reason that I make mistakes is a need to complete a given task. I need to check that box on my list and move on the to the next assignment. Sometimes this leaves little room for quality. 
I've done that very thing on this blog; just throw something together at the last minute because the post was due on Monday. Sad.

I suppose that it's a bit of a defense mechanism for some people. I am always early to appointments because my beloved mother was habitually late. Thus I hated the feeling of walking into class after Mom had dropped me off and everyone looking at me. Staring, actually.

Moral of the story, don't be afraid to make mistakes, because you're going to make them regardless.

As I'm typing this, I'm also wondering if I should be more afraid, or least more careful, to keep from making mistakes......Hmmmmmmm