# 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 11, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-discussion-of-judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/2229/27 "2026-08-11T20:05:54Z")

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I’m writing about the collapsed paragraph below:

> **The paragraph**
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> > [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> > This requires thinking about many clear goals which specify a clear line between success and failure, rather than overly broad or ambiguous goals. This is a mindset shift away from some common thinking.

The 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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> This requires thinking about many clear goals which specify a clear line between success and failure, rather than overly broad or ambiguous goals.

“This” means considering goals that the error causes failure at and goals that succeed anyway. Doing that requires the following:

> [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> thinking about many clear goals which specify a clear line between success and failure,

It looks like you gotta think about a lot of clear goals. I wonder why so many goals?

I don’t know right off the bat what specifying a clear line between success and failure looks like.

I think the goal, “Walk outside for 5 minutes” probably specifies a clear line for between success or failure. As long as Im outside walking for at least 5 minutes then I’ll pass my goal. If I go inside my house before my time’s up then I’ll fail at the goal.

I think if you think of a lot of goals like that then you can tell if the error causes failure for any of them. If it doesn’t then that goal is fine.

Why do you think of a lot of goals tho? Idk but it seems like you do it to acccomplish a bigger goal. It seems like you’re trying to do a project. Why else would you be thinking about other goals? You’re trying to see if an error is important or not no? I don’t remember

The second sentence of the paragraph above:

> [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> This is a mindset shift away from some common thinking.

What is a mindset shift? Thinking about many goals that the error may or may not cause failure at?

I think common thinking is, “why am I messing up so much on this goal I have?” Idk

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