Taking A Lesson From The Mistakes Of Others By S. C. Sawhney

This book is a compilation of some interesting real life stories that tell us about some mistakes some of the persons had committed and the way they had reacted to them to their advantage or disadvantage. The author got an inspiration to write this book from the following quotation of 'Chicago Tribune'. 'Only some of us can learn by the other people's mistakes. The rest of us have to be the other people.' While we always learn from our own mistakes this quotation tells us why we should learn from the mistakes of others also. The reason is simple. While we pay some price for what we learn from our own mistakes we don't have to pay any thing for what we learn from the mistakes of others. We should of course not be afraid of committing mistakes. It is seen that those who are afraid of committing mistakes only make more mistakes. We can make a head way only if we are not afraid of committing mistakes but are well-prepared for every situation. Also it is not necessary that every mistake should cause a heart burn. We can turn some mistakes even into blessings. Some stories of the book tell how the manner in which we react to a mistake can make a marvelous difference. This book aims to make us a little more alert and cautious so that we may avoid at least some mistakes in our life. Naturally we can feel far more happy by committing fewer mistakes in our life.

1. Story of a Young Girl who Ruined Her Life by Marrying a Wrong Boy
2. Story of the Families of Gladys Rozin and Barry Fisher
3. Story of Hindi Poet Tulsidas
4. Story of the Great Sanskrit Poet Kalidas
5. Story of the Mother of Pandavas
6. Story of Karyal Chastain Beal
7. Story on Existence of a Super Judicial System in the World
8. Story of Shakya Muni
9. Role of Destiny in Alfred Nobel's Life
10. Story of Shalik Yadav
11. Story of Avinash Mahajan who Got Salughtered in his Factory
12. Story of the Young Executive Manjunath
13. Stories of the Mothers of Thomas Alva Edison and Albert Einstein
14. Story of Wilma Rudolf's Parents
15. Kathy Johnson Gale's Story ""Blameless""
16. Jack Griffin's Story ""It's Ok My Son. Everybody Does it""
17. Story of the Principal of a Missionary School of Odisha (Orissa)
18. Story of an Examiner Who Used to Play with the Destinies of the Students
19. Story of a Brahmin Who could not Annoy Lord Buddha by Abusing Him
20. Story on Importance of Learning Good Manners in Life
21. Life of Louis Braille
22. Story of the Servant Who Kept on Giving Pain Relieving Drops to Our Son
23. Our Miseries have no Tie-Up with Raahu Kaal or Ketu Kaal
24. Story of a Hairline Crack in Bone
25. Story on Hiring Servants without Verifying their Credentials
26. Story of an Australian Lady Who had Come to India for Spiritual Enlightenment
27. An Accident that Took Place on a Busy Road of Lucknow
28. Story of a Newborn Baby Recovered from a Garbage Bin in Mumbai
29. Story of a German Farmer Who Had Kept Lot of Money over the Kitchen Shelf
30. Story of a Lewd Bureaucrat and His Daughter
31. Story of Lal's Pathological Lab
32. Story of a Man Who Wanted to be Sure before Blaming his Wife
33. Story of Warren Buffett's Second Marriage
34. Story of a Quack Doctor Whose Patient Got Cured even by a Wrong Medicine
35. Story of a Doctor Who Died of Cancer Despite Having been Very Kind to His Patients