There are very few people around who don’t make mistakes, and, in hindsight, most mistakes are seen as being stupid ones.  But why ‘stupid’?

“Stupid is as stupid does” goes the idiom popularized in the movie Forrest Gump.  Stupidity is shown by a person’s actions rather than their appearance or mannerisms.  If an action that obviously didn’t work previously is repeated despite the knowledge of the possibility of a faux pas, then a mistake, and a stupid one at that, is likely. Continue reading →