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That failure taught me to look for opportunities in which I had some natural advantage. When I later decided to try cartooning, it was because I knew there weren’t many people in the world who could draw funny pictures and also write in a witty fashion. My failure taught me to seek opportunities in which I had an advantage.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Scott Adams
When discussing technologies to support learning and education, Seymour Papert often emphasized the importance of “low floors” and “high ceilings.” For a technology to be effective, he said, it should provide easy ways for novices to get started (low floors) but also ways for them to work on increasingly sophisticated projects over time (high ceilings). With the Logo programming language, for example, children can start by drawing simple squares and triangles but gradually create more complex geometric patterns over time.
Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick, Ken Robinson
I did like his spiritual north star of cultivating a “beautiful state.” He told a story about speaking with a spiritual teacher from India who encouraged him to replace “peak state” with “beautiful state” as the telos of his teachings. Peak states can be cheap highs, like taking a drug. A beautiful state, on the other hand, must contain the truth about what is and what could be.
Tony Robbins: A Less Foolish Review
Peter Limberg
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