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How to embrace mistakes without romanticizing failure
Learn from Failure
This mindset is all about the ability to learn from failure and use failure as a tool to improve your practices. As Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO explains, “Don’t think of it as failure, think of it as designing experiments through which you’re going to learn.” Design begins with not knowing the solution to a challenge. Instead of being... See more
This mindset is all about the ability to learn from failure and use failure as a tool to improve your practices. As Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO explains, “Don’t think of it as failure, think of it as designing experiments through which you’re going to learn.” Design begins with not knowing the solution to a challenge. Instead of being... See more
Design Thinking Mindsets for Human-Centered Design
exposure to risk. MISTAKES ARE INFORMATION Mine your “failures” for valuable data about what works and what doesn’t. As long as you learn from the process, it’s not a mistake. DIVE INTO UNCERTAINTY Don’t be afraid to live in the shade of big questions. Uncertainty and ambiguity are a necessary part of risk-taking and the creative process. ACCEPT YO
... See more99U • Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career (99U Book 2)
Failure gives us valuable feedback that we use to address our regrettable actions and
99U • Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career (99U Book 2)
THE “FAIL FAST, fail often, fail forward” mantra is all the rage in Silicon Valley. Failure is viewed as inspirational fodder, a rite of passage, a secret handshake shared by the insiders. Countless business books instruct entrepreneurs to embrace failure and flaunt it as a badge of honor. There are conferences, such as FailCon, dedicated to celebr
... See moreOzan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
If Silicon Valley has domesticated failure, it has done so as part of a self-help ethos. It is interested in the way failure can make a better you, and the language it borrows frames failure as a route to an eventual redemption.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
As a New York Times article points out, failure has been transformed from an action (I failed) to an identity (I am a failure). This is especially true in the fixed mindset.