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Meagan Waller
May 20, 2014
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Learning from Failure
Final apprentice talk.
Meagan Waller
May 20, 2014
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Transcript
LEARNING FROM failure.
I FAILED.
i don’t like being called smart.
spoiler alert: natural Talent is a myth.
musicians
scientists
Programmers
is smart toxic?
smart causes underperformance
“you must be smart”
“you must have worked really hard.”
smart kids took the cop out.
90% picked the harder puzzles.
look smart do not risk making mistakes.
everyone failed.
this is my favorite test
sweating & miserable.
30% better
20% worse
a variable they can control.
no recipe for responding to failure.
expending effort is stigmatized.
all classes.
all genders.
all ages.
None
can’t hate
None
None
can’t hate
feedback. a failure is
you’re getting hotter colder
how can we improve?
expose our ignorance safe space to fail praise effort
expose our ignorance safe space to fail praise effort
expose our safe space to fail praise effort
expose our safe space to fail praise effort
None
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