Humans have a strange perception of mistakes. We trust people to make their own decisions until the first time when they make a mistake. Once that happens, we start dismissing their opinions and decisions citing the incident as proof.

But think about it logically. Most people learn something from a bad experience. Even if it is not the same lessons that we may want them to learn, they do grow in some way. And the next mistake will make them grow even more. With the exception of when a person makes exactly the same errors in judgement in the exact same situations, every other fall makes a person get back up stronger and wiser.

If we trusted them before this point, don’t we have even more reason to trust them now?