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"Every inventor in history has failed more often than he or she has succeeded. Hands-on teaching allows kids to fail -- and to thrive."

"Failure has been a trending topic on Education Unbound recently, particularly in regards to the disconnect between educational objectives and game-based learning (GBL). The basic problem is that games depend on players failing multiple times as the primary means of learning how to overcome obstacles. Education, in contrast, is predicated on the notion that failure is bad - for the student, the teacher, and the system as a whole. Until this difference of opinion can be overcome, there is little possibility that GBL can ever become the dominant mode of education in America."

A growth mindset is the secret to maximizing potential. Want to grow your staff? Give them tasks above their ability. They don't think they could do it? Tell them you expect them to work at it for a while, struggle with it. That it will take more time than the tasks they're used to doing. That you expect they'll make some mistakes along the way. But you know they could do it.

"When looked at correctly, failure can teach us where we went wrong in the first place, and how we can learn to pick ourselves up again in a pursuit to succeed."

"Mistakes happen - and when they do - how do we deal with being wrong? In this episode, TED speakers look at those darker moments in our lives, and consider why sometimes we need to make mistakes and face them head-on."

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"Seattle improviser and auctioneer Matt Smith shows how altering our physiological response to failure can lead to transparency, availability, flexibility and even happiness."

" "What risks to take on, how much money is too little or too much, are all judgment calls we help entrepreneurs with. Even which technology risk to take, building the right gene pool of a company, is a delicate balancing act between science, innovation, experience, burn rate, and many other factors that are seldom appreciated by people who have not built large, successful companies starting with small ones. Transitions and uncertainty are difficult to intuit." "