Getting good at failing is one of the great "secret skills" in my opinion: learning to repeatedly fail without getting frustrated and giving up is something we should all strive for!
Thoroughly enjoyed the Brio metaphor too - I spent countless hours playing with Brio as a kid, so much so that an entire room became known as 'The Brio Room' in my parents' house!
Thanks, Andrew! I take a lot of inspiration from Jerry Uelsmann's example of structuring the grading of his course to encourage folks to try and fail by giving them an option to earn their grade by "most photos" instead of "best photo". Of course he knew all along that the way to the best photo is through the most photos and many small failures.
That's really cool. I have jiu jitsu students, so the execution is different, but I am always encouraging the students to view the mats as a lab of sorts. Even when you make a mistake, you get a data point, so mistakes count toward progress!
Getting good at failing is one of the great "secret skills" in my opinion: learning to repeatedly fail without getting frustrated and giving up is something we should all strive for!
Thoroughly enjoyed the Brio metaphor too - I spent countless hours playing with Brio as a kid, so much so that an entire room became known as 'The Brio Room' in my parents' house!
Thanks Tom. Totally agree that this is an underrated skill!
Glad the Brio metaphor resonated. Fun as a parent to get to revisit all these fun childhood toys!
This is super duper important, and I wish my students understood this better.
Thanks, Andrew! I take a lot of inspiration from Jerry Uelsmann's example of structuring the grading of his course to encourage folks to try and fail by giving them an option to earn their grade by "most photos" instead of "best photo". Of course he knew all along that the way to the best photo is through the most photos and many small failures.
That's really cool. I have jiu jitsu students, so the execution is different, but I am always encouraging the students to view the mats as a lab of sorts. Even when you make a mistake, you get a data point, so mistakes count toward progress!