Tag: failure
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Unknowing Yourself
I had never thought about ‘unknowing yourself’ as part of the process of getting to know yourself – or even more important being more yourself. It is a concept that I heard from Lori Gottlieb. She says, “But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself—to let go…
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An Apology as Currency
a·pol·o·gy/əˈpäləjē/ Noun: A regretful acknowledgment of an offense or failure: “my apologies for the delay”. A formal, public statement of regret, such as one issued by a newspaper, government, or other organization. Have you ever seen someone use an Apology as Currency? Do you know what I’m talking about…
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Education and Fear
I have been reading Seth Godin’s Stop Stealing Dreams. Click here to get it for yourself. I think it’ll be inspiration for a few more blog posts. He highlights how our educational system is built to prey upon our fears. What we have fundamentally done is created students that are afraid…
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Fear and Identity
I had a conversation yesterday about this idea. We were talking about just the news of the week, and the comment that ended the conversation was Fear Sells. I read this morning in Seth Godin’s blog, and he has written about Fear, scarcity and value. He says that we avoid…
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Teaching Kids to Fail
I heard someone say that teachers now are teaching students that already know everything. It’s not possible to teach someone that already knows everything. They can Bing or Google the information much more quickly than a teacher can explain it in the class. The role now these days is not…
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Failure as an Option
When you spend over a decade in school and some of us a few more years in college, we are taught one thing – that failure is not an option. In fact, we’re taught that you are a failure if you fail. Some of US learn that an A is…
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Stigmatized Failure
What do you think about failure? What do you think about this idea that there is value in failure? We have stigmatized failure. We don’t like it. We’ve been conditioned to hate it. We’ve been “educated” against it. We’re such functional dualists that we can’t think about failure coexisting with…
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To My Students
If you are one of my currents students, you at least have this semester to finish. Some of you reading this still have many more semesters of school left. Where ever you are in your college career (or even for those out of college), you need to watch this video…
