As Mark Manson says, all of us are always wrong, every attempt that we make is to become less and less wrong. Here I have few examples that will illustrate this point.
1) Every design engineer knows that he cannot reach Carnot engine efficiency but he tries to reach the closest limits. But if reaching the ideal case is set as a measure of correctness, he is wrong in every attempt.
2) Every control system tries to exactly reproduce the desired signal at its output from the given input signal. But no matter what rectification method u use a rectifier can never produce an exact DC signal, we can only reduce the ripple content in the output signal.
3) Scientists try to replicate the human body, organs, and their functions. But there is no true replica. So in absolute terms, all models are wrong.
4) Every couple before marriage idealizes Romeo-Juliet and after marriage idealizes Ram-Sita but we all know our relationships are far from what we idealize.
Life is practical and it will remain far from the ideal cases. It has its inherent necessary evils e.g. friction for motion, resistance, and reactance for conduction. We will always remain wrong, in making decisions, in making choices, in designing and programming things, etc. There is no exception to this rule.
People who are considered successful have brought down themselves to a 2% steady-state stability error (ess) limit ie their accuracy is greater than 98% but less than 100%. They are working to reduce it further. Life before reaching this limit can be called Transient State. Life beyond ess can be called Steady State.
So if you get wrong, if u make poor choices, if u fail, don’t worry because every other person is doing the same. You are no different from others. It is always important to take a step towards reducing your errors. And the best part is it comes with trial and error.
In the graph time, T is calculated as
T= Time taken for one failed attempt (T1)+ Time taken to cry for the failed attempt (T2). In most people’s life, T2 dominates over T1. And so only a few reach to the band of stability limit or successful life, rest die much before that.
