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I endorse the theory of the My Mistakes audit, but find your practice is unusual. One of my most valuable documents is a text file in which I have a few items -- title of the file is "things I used to believe were true which I have since found out to be false". One time I was at a seminar and told the seminar leader about my file and he admonished me:
"Don't ever do that!"
I changed the subject but I gathered afterward his problem was that such a file is harmful to our precarious sense of self-esteem.
Anyway, the thing which you have done which I almost never do is share this information. To me it is a pretty private thing (they are largely private things).
Perhaps your "mistakes" file is only a partial listing?
Do you think I am making a mistake in publishing it?
It is, actually. I keep the personal mistakes in a separate file. (I don't have any issues with revealing intellectual mistakes, mistakes of thought and belief - I have managed to keep my identity small but I do have a problem revealing actions.)
I thought I explicitly mentioned this, but checking, I see I only have
where I thought I had a parenthetical comment '(which go into a separate private file)'. Guess I should fix that...