Comments on: Can Anyone tell me How they have Learned from Failure

By: doug

doug — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:21:45 +0000

Thank you for the comment, Jo.
So, for you it sounds like it was the reflection you undertook following the failure, which led to your learning.
My point being is that having failed the first time, you still did not know how to do it (at least not proved it yet) but you had an indication of what to practise.

By: doug

doug — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:19:07 +0000

but, Dughall, do you really think that is failing?
Babies are not expected to toilet themselves nor to have control over their bodily functions, so a baby soiling itself is not a mistake or a failing.
Sure, it is a success when a baby first uses the potty, then toilet, goes all day without wetting but so is each little stage leading up to that.
To my mind, yours is an example of learning by succeeding.

By: Jo Badge

Jo Badge — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:34:43 +0000

Interesting request, Doug. I guess it depends on how you define failure. The example that immediately springs to my mind is when I failed my driving test at my first attempt. I was gutted. I was top of my class in formal academic learning, so I assumed that I would sail through this test that the wider population (not just academically able A level students!) took. Rather big headed of me, and I failed. I took it pretty hard and discovered that I needed to know what I was doing wrong in order to correct those errors and improve. Everything I had learned at school had come fairly easily to me, so learning how to improve from feedback was actually very new to me. I changed instructor, listened to what he said, practiced the elements that I had failed on, and learned new ways to tackle them and passed second time round.

By: Dughall

Dughall — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:09:57 +0000

Can be said in a single sentence:

I no longer wear nappies.