Learning from Failure

Final apprentice talk.

Transcript

1. LEARNING FROM failure.
2. I FAILED.
3. i don’t like being called smart.
4. spoiler alert: natural Talent is a myth.
5. musicians
6. scientists
7. Programmers
8. is smart toxic?
9. smart causes underperformance
10. “you must be smart”
11. “you must have worked really hard.”
12. smart kids took the cop out.
13. 90% picked the harder puzzles.
14. look smart do not risk making mistakes.
15. everyone failed.
16. this is my favorite test
17. sweating & miserable.
18. 30% better
19. 20% worse
20. a variable they can control.
21. no recipe for responding to failure.
22. expending effort is stigmatized.
23. all classes.
24. all genders.
25. all ages.
27. can’t hate
30. can’t hate
31. feedback. a failure is
32. you’re getting hotter colder
33. how can we improve?
34. expose our ignorance safe space to fail praise effort
35. expose our ignorance safe space to fail praise effort
36. expose our safe space to fail praise effort
37. expose our safe space to fail praise effort
39. sources http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=32124 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1996.tb02591.x/abstract http://www.biography.com/people/ada-lovelace-20825323 http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/cosmology/gravity.html http://www.amazon.com/Apprenticeship-Patterns-Guidance-Aspiring-Craftsman/dp/ 0596518382 http://www.npr.org/2013/01/05/168696666/bikini-kill-rises-again-no-less-relevant http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/06/18/155277740/why-einstein-was- disqualified-from-teaching-high-school-physics http://www.technewsdaily.com/15853-ada-lovelace-first-coder-honored-in-google- doodle.html