{"id":199,"date":"2009-01-07T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2016-09-30T21:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T04:41:59","slug":"failing-to-teach-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/failing-to-teach-failure","title":{"rendered":"Failing to Teach Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting article on the power of failure from the Lifehack.org website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/communication\/i-won-science-fair-with-a-failed-project-the-skill-of-presenting-failures.html\">I Won Science Fair with a Failed Project: The Skill of Presenting Failures<\/a>. I&#8217;ve tried to teach my students to let go of their fear of failure, but it&#8217;s hard to combat the steady message of ACHIEVE! that they get from our culture.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are a couple of books to use in the classroom to drive the point home:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1931290172?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=nickslists-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=1931290172\">Great Failures of the Extremely Successful<\/a> &#8211; Chapters on Erin Brockovich, Tony Curtis, Al Franken and Michael Medved, among others.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316611166?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=nickslists-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0316611166\">The Road to Success is Paved with Failure: How Hundreds of Famous People Triumphed over Inauspicious Beginnings, Crushing Rejection, Humiliating Defeats, and Other Speed Bumps Along Life&#8217;s Highway<\/a> &#8211; short, quick stories that could easily be read each day at the beginning or end of class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting article on the power of failure from the Lifehack.org website: I Won Science Fair with a Failed Project: The Skill of Presenting Failures. I&#8217;ve tried to teach my students to let&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[115,116],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-failure","tag-lifehack-org"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-3d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}