Dex

Big hearted fluffdragon...

...fictional ex-90s platformer mascot, nerd, plural, ฮ˜ฮ”.


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exerian
@exerian

the difference between an amateur and a professional is the professional has made the mistake enough times to know how to either avoid it or fix it.


NireBryce
@NireBryce

I cannot stress this enough:

If you can find a way to make your mistakes in a relatively safe and controlled way, you are training yourself to be able perform similar actions correctly under stress, when there's real things on the line.

Failure teaches you that some part of your approach didn't work. Failure teaches you about your assumptions. Failure gives you information. Failure is data. But only if you build the habit of listening to it.

one of the most useful properties of failure, if you think about it really hard, is that you're performing a bisection search every time you do it. The solution isn't the combination of the things you just tried, not under these conditions.


SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets

i want to yell so often about how the entire way we've structured our learning, our work, even much of our play is to irreversibly punish failure with no structured way to learn from, and correct your mistakes

like from probably age 6 or 7 or something like that (idk the curriculum and methods have changed a lot) getting something wrong on a graded assignment is just punished. loss of marks, usually weighted somehow against a final grade. and it's not just a number in a vacuum that tells you how much you don't know yet, you're judged, personally, on it and often given devastating feedback or admonitions

do we have any structured apparatus in any part of our life that ever encourages us to try shit we're bad at and responds to failure as a positive experience to learn from?

im usually yelling about this from a perspective of learning and trying things but it absolutely applies to personal growth just as much

as much as im sure everyone in every new cultural iteration thinks "surely we've got it right and know how to be good people this time," you're absolutely going to run into previously unconsidered biases or prejudices or harmful practices, or language evolves (or is discovered to originate in a way) that gives the worst people on earth power, snd you've gotta like. know that you've been wrong and will continue to be wrong but that learning the ways that you're still wrong and unlearning the toxic sludge this society force fed you for most of your life? it's necessary and ongoing and positive1

anyway sorry, i always ramble about this way longer than necessary...


  1. source: im fuckin old, ancient, an antiquity


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