# Dface's Discussion of "Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors"

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**Created:** [August 6, 2026, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-discussion-of-judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/2229 "2026-08-06T16:20:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/dface/32/3926_2.png) [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-discussion-of-judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/2229/21 "2026-08-09T01:53:39Z")

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The following paragraph is about what to do with the goals that fail due to an issue:

> [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> If you know what goals will fail due to a problem, you can consider if you actually have any of those goals. You might be fine with failing at those things while succeeding at some other goals that you do care about. That’s not failure for you since you succeeded at all the goals you aimed for.

First sentence:

> [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> If you know what goals will fail due to a problem, you can consider if you actually have any of those goals.

The first clause now gets you thinking about your goals. That’s different than thinking what errors are causing you to fail your goal. You kind of gotta have an idea about how good your goals are I think. You gotta have an idea about how the goal is going to interact with an issue i think.

The line of thinking sounds effective cuz if you already got some goals that don’t fail cuz of an error then you can stick with that. You can use that goal maybe to succeed at a bigger goal. It can be like a sub-goal.

Next clause of the quoted sentence:

> [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> you can consider if you actually have any of those goals.

Hey, if you have a goal that doesn’t fail cuz of an issue then do that. The error isn’t causing you to not be successful.

I wonder what happens if you do have a goal in mind that fails cuz a problem. I think you can choose to make improvements there. That’s how you know which error to focus on?

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