Comments on: Admitting Failure http://www.forgeover.com/articles/2009/07/24/admitting-failure Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:28:20 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Victoria http://www.forgeover.com/articles/2009/07/24/admitting-failure/comment-page-1#comment-63 Victoria Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:48:17 +0000 http://www.forgeover.com/articles/2009/06/12/admiting-failure#comment-63 <p>Unclutterer's site has a related post on apologies http://unclutterer.com/2009/07/27/musings-on-apologies-and-uncluttered-speech/</p> Unclutterer’s site has a related post on apologies http://unclutterer.com/2009/07/27/musings-on-apologies-and-uncluttered-speech/

]]> By: David Drazen http://www.forgeover.com/articles/2009/07/24/admitting-failure/comment-page-1#comment-61 David Drazen Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:47:52 +0000 http://www.forgeover.com/articles/2009/06/12/admiting-failure#comment-61 <p>I enjoyed this one. My new job involves me in a subject area that is new to me, but not completely foreign. Regardless I've had some chances to mess some of my experimental results up accidentally. I'd rather not go into the details, but it wasn't entirely my fault, but I admitted I screwed up. It was understood that it was part of doing experimental work, but I still felt silly about it, and now I'll never make that mistake again. Over the past years, I've tried to live by the motto that "I give credit where it is due, and I admit to mistakes that I made". So far I feel its done me well. So I agree that we do learn from our failures. My old karate sensei used to say that "when you fail you learn" and I do agree, but that doesn't mean you have to fail in order to learn.</p> I enjoyed this one. My new job involves me in a subject area that is new to me, but not completely foreign. Regardless I’ve had some chances to mess some of my experimental results up accidentally. I’d rather not go into the details, but it wasn’t entirely my fault, but I admitted I screwed up. It was understood that it was part of doing experimental work, but I still felt silly about it, and now I’ll never make that mistake again. Over the past years, I’ve tried to live by the motto that “I give credit where it is due, and I admit to mistakes that I made”. So far I feel its done me well. So I agree that we do learn from our failures. My old karate sensei used to say that “when you fail you learn” and I do agree, but that doesn’t mean you have to fail in order to learn.

]]> By: Tucker Bradford http://www.forgeover.com/articles/2009/07/24/admitting-failure/comment-page-1#comment-60 Tucker Bradford Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:26:10 +0000 http://www.forgeover.com/articles/2009/06/12/admiting-failure#comment-60 <p>Major Borkage on the spelling errors (there were 8 of them). Ugh.</p> Major Borkage on the spelling errors (there were 8 of them). Ugh.

]]> By: Tucker Bradford http://www.forgeover.com/articles/2009/07/24/admitting-failure/comment-page-1#comment-59 Tucker Bradford Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:13:15 +0000 http://www.forgeover.com/articles/2009/06/12/admiting-failure#comment-59 <p>p.s. This post was getting a bit long, so I left some stuff out. Like, admitting failure is cathartic. Really, once everyone knows you botched something up, you don't have to worry about them finding out anymore. How's that for a sweet plus!</p> p.s. This post was getting a bit long, so I left some stuff out. Like, admitting failure is cathartic. Really, once everyone knows you botched something up, you don’t have to worry about them finding out anymore. How’s that for a sweet plus!

]]> By: Fitz http://www.forgeover.com/articles/2009/07/24/admitting-failure/comment-page-1#comment-58 Fitz Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:26:38 +0000 http://www.forgeover.com/articles/2009/06/12/admiting-failure#comment-58 <p>I still think we learn from non-failure events. Different people learn most easily in different ways. Good post tho.</p> <p>Oh, and speaking of failures, you spelled "admitting" wrong--maybe on purpose? If not, I bet you won't do that again :-)</p> <p>-Fitz</p> I still think we learn from non-failure events. Different people learn most easily in different ways. Good post tho.

Oh, and speaking of failures, you spelled “admitting” wrong–maybe on purpose? If not, I bet you won’t do that again :-)

-Fitz

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