{"id":1011,"date":"2009-02-10T06:27:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T11:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/02\/10\/repost-knowing-and-doing-february-2009-archives\/"},"modified":"2009-02-10T06:27:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T11:27:15","slug":"repost-knowing-and-doing-february-2009-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/10\/repost-knowing-and-doing-february-2009-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"-rePost Failing to Learn-Knowing and Doing: Embracing Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent post bout how failing to learn! Read the whole thing!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Embracing Failure<\/p>\n<p>A while back, I clipped this quote from a university publication, figuring it would decorate a blog entry some day:<\/p>\n<p>The thing about a liberal arts education &#8230; is it prepares you to fail successfully and learn from that failure. &#8230; You will all fail. That&#8217;s OK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jim Linahon<\/p>\n<p>Linahon is an alumnus of our school who works in the music industry. He gave a talk on campus for students aspiring to careers in the industry, the theme of which was, &#8220;Learn to fail. It happens&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More recently, I ran across this as the solution to a word puzzle in our local paper:<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Ray Bradbury<\/p>\n<p>Bradbury was one of my favorite authors when I was growing up (The Martian Chronicles mesmerized me!) This quote goes farther than Linahon&#8217;s: what other people call failure is learning to fly. Do not fear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.uni.edu\/~wallingf\/blog\/archives\/monthly\/2009-02.html#e2009-02-09T16_31_38.htm\">Knowing and Doing: February 2009 Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent post bout how failing to learn! Read the whole thing! Embracing Failure A while back, I clipped this quote from a university publication, figuring it would decorate a blog entry some day: The thing about a liberal arts education &#8230; is it prepares you to fail successfully and learn from that failure. &#8230; You &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/10\/repost-knowing-and-doing-february-2009-archives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;-rePost Failing to Learn-Knowing and Doing: Embracing Failure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}