"To add to Milton Glaser's quote (see Susan Bennett's comment below), Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, says Britain's attitude towards avoiding failure at all costs is holding us back. See the article in yesterday's Evening…"
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RSATop5: Readers' Group
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Carers in Society
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Profit with Purpose
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Focus on: Women
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Esther King posted events
The Failure Files on Tour, Cambridge RSA Fellows evening
May 11, 2011 from 6pm to 8:30pmHOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE (VALUING FAILURE)
May 17, 2011 from 6:15pm to 8:30pm
Esther King joined Jonathan Jewell's group
Carers in Society
Carers in Society is an RSA project that is designed to support involuntary, unremunerated carers. It does this by raising awareness of the diversity of these carers and their needs and campaign for change on their behalf.See More
Esther King joined Clare Reilly's group
Profit with a Purpose?
A network that will encourage the traditional business model to become more active and effective in social, environmental and economic sustainability.
Esther King commented on Jonathan Jewell's group 'Glory of Failure'
"Hi Bruce I've just read your sermon and really enjoyed it. I was especially struck by the quote from Maher
"Doubt is humble and that is what man needs to be considering that human history is just a litany of getting stuff dead…"
Esther King replied to Esther King's discussion 'What can we do for the Glory of Failure project in our own lives?' in the group Glory of Failure
"Hi Jocelyn and welcome to the RSA and this Ning.
That's a great quote. It makes me smile when I read it and I've put it on my wall now.
I think it's top of the list of things to say to anyone who is worried about failure."
Jocelyn Cunningham replied to Esther King's discussion 'What can we do for the Glory of Failure project in our own lives?' in the group Glory of Failure
"Hello,
New to both the RSA and this Ning but very engaged by this conversation. I have on my desk a quote from Samuel Beckett:
Fail once,
Fail twice,
Fail better.
which encapsulates things well for me and helps to keep me thinking of risky ways…"
Esther King commented on Jonathan Jewell's group 'Glory of Failure'
"This week I was shown a video of a talk by Sir Ken Robinson in which he said "What we do know is that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original." and "We're now running national…"
Esther King commented on Jonathan Jewell's group 'Glory of Failure'
"There was a book of poems called Failure, by Philip Schultz, which was co-winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Has anyone read it?"
Esther King commented on Jonathan Jewell's group 'Glory of Failure'
"I was just searching on the word failure (as you do) and came across an interesting distinction: failure and success are often thought of as alternatives at the same logical level but that is actually misleading. Taking the example of a bridge, the…"
Esther King joined Sarah Tucker's group
Social Entrepreneurs Network
The Social Entrepreneurs Network is a network for all those interested in social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. The aim is to solve some of the practical challenges faced by social entrepreneurs.See More
Esther King replied to Esther King's discussion 'What can we do for the Glory of Failure project in our own lives?' in the group Glory of Failure
"Hi Nicola, I love your example (and your medal). It really does illustrate embracing failure:
Your instructor saying that it's about learning about yourself
You saying that you often fail at taekwondo but you fail alongside others and the…"
Esther King replied to Esther King's discussion 'What can we do for the Glory of Failure project in our own lives?' in the group Glory of Failure
"Yes it is an interesting idea, and my immediate feeling is to agree that the concentration and emphasis on success isn't helpful. It's fair to say that we all want to be successful in whatever we do but the taboo on failure makes success…"
Susan Jones replied to Esther King's discussion 'What can we do for the Glory of Failure project in our own lives?' in the group Glory of Failure
"I was also wondering whether we could do a bit of challenging the tendency to use the adjective 'successful' quite so freely?
If more people admitted to failure - were allowed to admit to failure - folk like us in this forum wouldn't…"
Jonathan Jewell replied to Esther King's discussion 'What can we do for the Glory of Failure project in our own lives?' in the group Glory of Failure
"You are right Esther, I wonder if my posting is possibly more about what contribution you can make to the campaign, our 'means' so to speak, while you are taking here I think more at the 'ends' and how we go about delivering on…"
Esther King added a discussion to the group Glory of Failure
What can we do for the Glory of Failure project in our own lives?
Jonathan has put lots of suggestions on how to get more involved in the “Whether you have lots of time, some time or NO time - you can still contribute! Find out how here” discussion thread and I’ve been doing some of those.I have a ‘how do I translate this into my daily life’ feeling though. When I come across an unhelpful reaction to failure, or have that reaction myself, what can I do?I was talking to Roxanne about this last week and she phrased it as “how do we help others embrace…See More
Comment Wall (1 comment)
- At 23:31 on February 4, 2010,
Jonathan Jewell said… - Have a look at the adaptive management presentation on this page. There are articles too on the site, but if you are interested further, contact me and I'll send the heavy-weight stuff!
http://www.intaver.com/riskyproject_presentations.html
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