Doc Impossible@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io
The best advice I ever got was from my dad: "Fail as hard as you can."
He meant that we learn when we fail, and that that's the single most important thing about failure--but if we half-ass it, we'll always wonder if it was just because we didn't try hard enough.
It's served me REALLY well.
David Mitchell :CApride:@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca
@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io
“we learn when we fail” … I know what you mean, but this proverb phrased this way is dangerously incomplete, because while we can learn when we fail, there are many who never learn from failure. We learn when we fail because we acknowledge our failure in a constructive, practical, and analytical way, and then proceed to apply that learning appropriately.
“Fail hard” with everything you’ve got so that you can take the learning and do it again but in a new and different way.
I work with children of all ages, and more recently I hear versions of “mistakes are how we learn” from kids who use it to express a fatalistic refusal to engage with failure, a giant shoulder shrug.