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Failure - a positive thing...
'Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive thing. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.' John Keats.
I'd like to see if we could have a bit of a discussion about the 'dimensions of failure'. The group have already produced some work on what these are and I will share them with people shortly. But I'd be keen to see, with a blank slate, if we get further confirmation of what we have or even new ideas. Try starting with:
Failure is...
[one example from our list] ...pain.
Tags: dimensions, failure, glory, keats, pain, positive, value
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Permalink Reply by Sian Prime on
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8486011.stm
I saw this.. and thought of this..Michael Landy is creating an exhibition about Failure.
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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Jewell on -
Creative in a very different way! Just an article you came across or is art your area? Thanks for the link.
Sian Prime said:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8486011.stm
I saw this.. and thought of this..Michael Landy is creating an exhibition about Failure.
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Permalink Reply by William Butler on -
Its really + that we are exploring the 'positives' about failure. However, let's acknowledge and respond to the challenge that while a 'failure' may be a learning opportunity for the confident and validated individual ( a description of us as RSA fellows?) it often doesn't seem so for the more marginalised members of society
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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Jewell on
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Totally agree William. In a few days, once we have a bit more commentary on the site, I will post the principles and dimensions we came up with in the glory of failure campaign. One of these is 'failure is pain...' which captures some of that.
I think this comes out much more strongly in the book we are producing, 'The Failure Files' - you commentary would be interesting. There are two chapters of particular note, failure thrust upon individual in Chris Knell's 'individual life events section' and Robert and Kirsty's work on helping disadvantaged young people to build their confidence and move on after difficult lives of poverty and crime, for instance.
I'll get David Hillson, editor, not on this site, to send Chris the book outline and him to post it on this site soon. He might be able to add to this.
Jonathan
Jonathan
William Butler said:Its really + that we are exploring the 'positives' about failure. However, let's acknowledge and respond to to the challenge that while a 'failure' may be a learning opportunity for the confident and validated individual ( a description of us as RSA fellows?) it often doesn't seem so for the more marginalised members of society -
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