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(This is mainly applicable to the biomedical sciences) I know everybody has days where they drop samples, or pipet something into the wrong tube, or forgets an important step in a protocol, etc. It just feels like I do this a lot more than my peers, or at least more than what would allow me to make progress at a reasonable pace in a research environment. I frequently make mistakes that set me back a day or more. Sometimes this is because I'm going too quickly or cutting corners, and I know I need to do better there. But there's been plenty of scenarios where I thought I was doing my best and being more careful than necessary, and still messed something up. I decided a while back to make a spreadsheet to document times I made mistakes like this, how I contained it, why it happened, how to prevent it, etc. and I've been on and off with adding things to it. I'm not sure if it's helped, a lot of times it feels like there are 10,000 ways to do something wrong and even my best efforts won't prevent most of them. Does anybody identify with this feeling, and has anyone found ways to overcome this?