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Learning From Failure - Nickel City Ruby

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October 03, 2014
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Learning From Failure - Nickel City Ruby

This talk was given at Nickel City Ruby, October 3rd, 2014 in Buffalo New York.

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Meagan Waller

October 03, 2014

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Transcript

  1. learning from failure. meagan waller - @meaganewaller

  2. i failed.

  3. i don’t like being called smart.

  4. is smart toxic?

  5. smart causes underperformance.

  6. smart. effort.

  7. easy. hard.

  8. look smart. don’t risk making mistakes.

  9. everyone failed.

  10. anxious. calm.

  11. drop 20% up 30%

  12. a variable they can control.

  13. no recipe for responding to failure.

  14. expending effort is stigmatized.

  15. all classes.

  16. all genders. all genders.

  17. all ages.

  18. ok, what now?

  19. None

  20. hate. can’t.

  21. Courtesy: http://www.teachthought.com/industry/6-reasons-standardized-testing-is-at-best-problematic/

  22. None

  23. warmer. colder.

  24. beyond beginner.

  25. don’t fail at failure.

  26. fail fast.

  27. expose ignorance.

  28. document everything.

  29. retros.

  30. premortem.

  31. failure for fun and profit.

  32. chip away at the stigma.

  33. foster expert learners.

  34. safe to fail praise effort expose ignorance

  35. safe to fail praise effort expose ignorance

  36. “it meant a lot that you noticed how hard i

    worked.”

  37. safe to fail praise effort expose ignorance

  38. safe to fail praise effort expose ignorance

  39. “The road leading to a goal does not separate you

    from the destination; it is essentially a part of it”
  40. None
  41. None

  42. i’m meagan @meaganewaller meaganwaller.com thank you!