Sunday, November 24, 2013

It's A Stumble, Not A Fall

Learn to fall gracefully. The most successful entrepreneurs and executives first own up to their failures. Then they move on by putting their heads down and working hard to prove themselves again. - Daniel Roberts, author of Zoom: Surprising Ways to Supercharge Your Career

I led a student about 3/4 of the way into a problem before realizing I'd made a typo (write-o?). I could have just erased it silently, but I apologized. No one likes to make a mistake, but I think that moments of vulnerability help build comfort between adults and children. And actually, between adults and adults.

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