What matters isn't so much how often we make mistakes, but how we react to them - which includes making prompt fixes just as much as admitting to the team that

What matters isn't so much how often we make mistakes, but how we react to them - which includes making prompt fixes just as much as admitting to the team that we actually made a mistake. Especially if it's a "silly" mistake. In a development context, I'll often find that a problem that seems to just generate pure static in my mind for the first 5-10 min that I think about it will often "solve itself" in the course of the next coffee break, subway ride, or (if the company I'm working for has enough common sense about human nature to allow for it), mid-day nap. By contrast, it's those alpha-geek types who basically seem to be -never- able to readily admit a mistake of their own (yet continually grate on others for their, like as not far lesser mistakes) that I find far more intractable to work with that those who are just a bit inexperienced, or absent-minded.