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Meagan Waller
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.
Meagan Waller
October 03, 2014
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Transcript
learning from failure. meagan waller - @meaganewaller
i failed.
i don’t like being called smart.
is smart toxic?
smart causes underperformance.
smart. effort.
easy. hard.
look smart. don’t risk making mistakes.
everyone failed.
anxious. calm.
drop 20% up 30%
a variable they can control.
no recipe for responding to failure.
expending effort is stigmatized.
all classes.
all genders. all genders.
all ages.
ok, what now?
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hate. can’t.
Courtesy: http://www.teachthought.com/industry/6-reasons-standardized-testing-is-at-best-problematic/
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warmer. colder.
beyond beginner.
don’t fail at failure.
fail fast.
expose ignorance.
document everything.
retros.
premortem.
failure for fun and profit.
chip away at the stigma.
foster expert learners.
safe to fail praise effort expose ignorance
safe to fail praise effort expose ignorance
“it meant a lot that you noticed how hard i
worked.”
safe to fail praise effort expose ignorance
safe to fail praise effort expose ignorance
“The road leading to a goal does not separate you
from the destination; it is essentially a part of it”
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i’m meagan @meaganewaller meaganwaller.com thank you!