The Efficacy Institute posted on May 15, 2008 12:19
If at first you don't succeed... well, you know how the saying goes. But as Alina Tugend writes, "We grow up with a mixed message: making mistakes is a necessary learning tool, but we should avoid them." Read her article, "
The Many Errors in Thinking About Our Mistakes," originally published in the Business section of
The New York Times.
At the beginning of her career, social psychologist Carol Dweck asked herself a question: "What makes a really capable child give up in the face of failure, where other children may be motivated by failure?" Read more about Dr. Dweck's research in
Stanford Magazine's, "
The Effort Effect."
Add one more piece to the FADAF equation: Failure actually
engenders innovation, or as Roger von Oech writes, "it jolts us out of our routines and forces us to look for fresh approaches." Read more on von Oech's blog posting titled, "
Embrace Failure."