What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 6 views
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Tom March on 16 Sep 11Read through this article and highlight or comment on things that you think would resonate with your students or colleagues.
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He is a big thinker, always chasing new ideas, and a conversation with him can feel like a one-man TED conference, dotted with references to the latest work by behavioral psychologists and management gurus and design theorists.
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in America that if you worked hard and you showed real grit, that you could be successful,” he said. “Strangely, we’ve now forgotten that. People who have an easy time of things, who get 800s on their SAT’s, I worry that those people get feedback that everything they’re doing is great. And I think as a result, we are actually setting them up for long-term failure.
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