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#mistakes
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Growth mindset: praise the effort
What should Ethan’s parents have done? Research reveals a simple solution. Rather than praising him for being smart, they should have praised him for working hard. On the successful completion of a test, they should not have said, “I’m so proud of you. You’re such a bright…
Epigrams On Programming
Computers process numbers, not symbols
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
At the moment of experiencing we cannot tell a perception from an hallucination
It is constitutive for Maturana that at the moment of experiencing we cannot tell a perception from an hallucination. From his analysis, the science of neurophysiology has failed to generate a mechanism which could explain our hearing/seeing objects external to us, independent…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Success is on the far side of failure
“Success,” said IBM founder T. J. Watson, “is on the far side of failure.”
Covering up a mistake is a second mistake
But not to acknowledge a mistake, not to correct it and learn from it, is a mistake of a different order. It usually puts a person on a self-deceiving, self-justifying path, often involving rationalization (rational lies) to self and to others. This second mistake, this…
Admit and correct mistakes at once
Our response to any mistake affects the quality of the next moment. It is important to immediately admit and correct our mistakes so that they have no power over that next moment and we are empowered again.
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
If you cannot fail, you cannot learn
These are some of the questions teams struggle to answer if they have followed the “let’s just ship a product and see what happens” plan. I call this the “just do it” school of entrepreneurship after Nike’s famous slogan.1 Unfortunately, if the plan is to see what happens, a…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Initiative versus guilt
The third and last stage of Erikson’s theory that addresses the early childhood years is initiative versus guilt. Most four-and five-year-olds are at this stage, which is therefore a key one for preschool and kindergarten teachers to know about. The developmental task of this…
Supporting initiative in preschoolers
To support children’s development of initiative in the third stage, Erikson says that teachers can encourage children to be as independent as possible; focus on gains as children practice new skills, not on the mistakes they make along the way; set expectations that are in line…