Poem: "Success in Progress"
This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills the "failure analysis" square in my 5-1-21 card for the Leaky Pipeline Bingo fest. It has been sponsored by a pool with 
fuzzyred,
ng_moonmoth,
janetmiles, and
edorfaus.
"Success in Progress"
Everyone fails at something.
Making mistakes is
a natural and necessary
part of the learning process.
If you're not making any mistakes,
you're not learning, you're coasting.
What makes greatness is not
merely a matter of talent or practice.
It lies in how people view failure.
Most people see failure as an end;
they give up and do something else.
The determined see failure as
a stepping stone along the path,
something they pass by on the way
to the greatness that lies ahead.
In order to succeed, you must
understand this basic fact:
Failure is success in progress.
* * *
Notes:
"Failure is success in progress."
-- Albert Einstein
It has to be okay to make mistakes, because everyone makes mistakes and that's how we learn. Create an environment that is resilient about mistakes. This encourages people to deal with them and learn from them instead of hiding them and making matters worse. There's even a game for learning this. In one of my online classes I assigned students to try a project at the edge of their current skill level, which pretty much guarantees something will go a bit pear-shaped.
fuzzyred,
ng_moonmoth,
janetmiles, and
edorfaus.
"Success in Progress"
Everyone fails at something.
Making mistakes is
a natural and necessary
part of the learning process.
If you're not making any mistakes,
you're not learning, you're coasting.
What makes greatness is not
merely a matter of talent or practice.
It lies in how people view failure.
Most people see failure as an end;
they give up and do something else.
The determined see failure as
a stepping stone along the path,
something they pass by on the way
to the greatness that lies ahead.
In order to succeed, you must
understand this basic fact:
Failure is success in progress.
* * *
Notes:
"Failure is success in progress."
-- Albert Einstein
It has to be okay to make mistakes, because everyone makes mistakes and that's how we learn. Create an environment that is resilient about mistakes. This encourages people to deal with them and learn from them instead of hiding them and making matters worse. There's even a game for learning this. In one of my online classes I assigned students to try a project at the edge of their current skill level, which pretty much guarantees something will go a bit pear-shaped.