Learning is a series of mistakes

This quote from Randy Nelson of Pixar University is one of many that resonates with me:

"...the core skill of an innovator is error recovery not failure avoidance."

I still struggle with the rightness of it all. If failure avoidance means not stretching the boundaries, I would rather recover from failure instead. It is a feeling all learners should get to know.

There are many other great things he says. His talk featured on Edutopia can be found here.

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