How Productive Failure Leads to Better Learning

Do you know that sinking feeling when you look at what youve created and think your work totally sucks?

This post originally appeared on theBuffer blog.

Ive chronicled bothmy own idea prisonand some ofmy attempts to free myselfbefore.

The downside is that our newly-forming abilities havent had time to catch up with our superior taste.

So were deeply, painfully aware of how bad we are.

Give Yourself Permission to Be Terrible

How do you combat this?

You could stick to just the things that come easy.

Doing things you enjoy, can often lead to not sucking at them.

Life is long, sucking is temporary.

And even though the terribleness could last quite a while, keep going andpractice truly does makes perfect.

(Or at least less sucky, after a while.)

Research has shown that this method leads students to significantly outperform those who learn through traditional instruction and problem-solving.

To get scientific, what were really talking about here is agrowth mindset.

Those with a growth mindset can handle sucking for a while.

She never goes anywhere without a book.

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