Mistakes: People keep telling me they learn from their mistakes. And I’m pretty sure they are mistaken. Yes, you learn from a mistake not to do again whatever the mistake happened to be. But, unless there’s a process of elimination among a small, finite set, the mistake is no guide about what to do in order to succeed.
There may be some good arguments for celebrating mistakes, but the fact that they lead on occasion to good outcomes is not one of them..
What do you already know about success and failure?
Let’s explore four possible sequences…
Many facilitators find it helpful to think in terms of Structures and their concomitant Freedoms when designing and running activities that aim to engage participants at appropriate levels of safety, risk and challenge..
