Learning From Failure
summary
Claims that praising innate smarts causes underperformance are backed by Carol Dweck’s classroom experiments: smart-praised students who then choose easy tasks score 20% lower later, while effort-praised students rise 30% and 90% choose harder tests. Practical fixes include timeboxing (45 minutes), treating failing tests as feedback, documenting fixes in READMEs and Evernote, running Friday Objective‑C workshops, and using retros and pre‑mortems; these lead to teammates actually picking up iOS stories instead of stalling.
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- 0:00learning from failure.
- 2:47i don't like being called smart.
- 3:08is smart toxic?
- 3:46smart causes underperformance.
- 5:14look smart. don't risk making mistakes.
- 6:50a variable they can control.
- 7:11no recipe for responding to 'failure.
- 7:24expending effort is stigmatized.
- 8:02all genders.
- 13:41beyond beginner.
- 14:04don't fail at failure.
- 16:22expose ignorance
- 17:08document everything
- 20:16premortem.
- 21:53failure for fun and profit
- 22:47chip away at the stigma.
- 24:20foster expert learners
- 27:44The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it
