Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Eyring's Take on Correction

In Elder Eyring's talk about being a Child of God, he gives some characteristics of being a good learner. One characteristic that I would like to focus on is welcoming correction. Not everyone is perfect, so therefore everyone makes mistakes every day. Depending on your point of view, you can take correction in a prideful way and despise it, thinking you are to great for correction. Or you can welcome it with humility, allowing you to grow from correction and be a better learner. Great learners care more for the feedback they get for their work than the grade that they may have gotten. They cherish wise correction from other learners so they can mature and become better learners themselves. From Elder Eyring's point of view on correction, I fully believe that we must take correction humbly and look to build and grow upon it.