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Brainware: How to Succeed with Failure - 1 views

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writing fear failing

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure — or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you will find success.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 02 Nov 09
     
    Please don't think that I am trying to set any of you up for failure in this class. I don't anticipate any of my students failing (except those who don't try... and they have already failed...). Rather, think of what this site has to offer regarding making mistakes. Many of you have been afraid to write for fear of making mistakes. I would suggest that you try to double the rate at which you are making mistakes in writing...:)
J.Randolph Radney

YouTube - Famous Failures - 0 views

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failures writing student research

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 15 Oct 09 - Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 15 Oct 09
     
    I'd like you to watch this linked video and comment on it.
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Next Time, Fail Better - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 09 May 12 - No Cached
  • Humanities students are not used to failure. They want to get it right the first time. When they are new to the game, they want to get good grades on what are essentially first drafts. Once they learn how much work it is to write and edit a really good essay, their goals shift—from getting A's on papers written the night before to getting A's and making the difficult process look effortless.
  • I had a colleague who had a poster in his dining room with Samuel Beckett's "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." We may tell ourselves that, but we don't tell our students. Maybe we should post it in our classrooms, not our dining rooms.
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