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Today, 22 July 2009, is the birthday of my better half.
We were newlyweds when I took this photo. She's reading the book that I gave her for her birthday in 2004. A real bookworm, a passionate reader, that's my Aileen.
I like to see experiments aimed at improving local services. But always provided they are reviewed and evaluated. So even experiments which fail, or partly or wholly succeed, can lead to learning with the lessons applied.
Learning from failure may be productive if there is genuine examination of why and how something failed.
Learning from success can be equally valuable. In fact
succeeding without knowing why you succeeded may be of little use.
Either way we need a willingness to learn from what went wrong (or right) and effective ways to apply that learning.
Two commonly found alternatives to such learning are:
( 1 ) to hide or gloss over failure - sometimes spinning it as success or
(2) Simply boasting of a success e.g. in a PR release. But without examining or questioning the factors on which the success is based. In particular, without asking whether or not a successful outcome will be reproduced elsewhere or, say, scaled-up.
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My photo shows a small experiment which - at least partly - seemed to work. The black plastic storage bin is at the eastern end of St Loy's Road N17. It's near the junction with the High Road Tottenham.
Veolia is Haringey Council's waste management contractors and its street cleaners put litter and other street waste into distinctive purple bags for later collection. The black bin retains the bags, avoiding a pile in the street maybe tempting people to leave more litter and waste next to them.
It's essential the black bins are emptied regularly, so street cleaners don't have to leave bags nearby, encouraging and perhaps almost "inviting" some dumping.
In this photo on 30 January 2018, the bag on the pavement was 'joined' by a cardboard box.
We want good things in life. We expect good results from our hard, honest work but end up in bad situations. I can think of times when I gave my all to things I loved but I ended up getting hurt and disappointed by them. I didn't get what I was expecting. Doesn't it happen to all of us sometimes? So, what's the best way to respond when things go wrong and we end up getting the short end of the stick?#attitude #happiness #shortendofthestick #expectations #angry #failing #attitude #failingforward #improving #life #toys #legos #success #photography #365photochallenge #365project #project365 #365_today #Project365 #camera #365photos #photos #daily #dailypics #photooftheday#success #photography #365photochallenge #365project #project365 #365_today #Project365 #camera #365photos #photos #daily #dailypics #photooftheday
Failing Forward
Turning Mistakes into Stepping-Stones for Success
By John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville 2000
ISBN 0-7852-7430-8 hard cover
ISBN 0-7852-6815-4 paperback
209 pages
The Big Idea
Failing forward tells you how to look at life’s setbacks and learn from your mistakes. If you haven’t failed at anything, it means you haven’t really taken a risk at anything. Failures are only as bad as you perceive them to be. Life is much better when you live, and try, and fail. Living requires failing every now and then. The basic steps to moving on and failing forward are:
* Realize there is one major difference between average people and achievers. The difference is in how they respond to failure
* Learn a new definition of failure.
* Remove the “you” from failure. Don’t take it personally.
* Take action and reduce your fear.
* Change your response to failure by accepting responsibility.
* Don’t let failure from outside get inside you.
* Say good-bye to yesterday.
* Change yourself, and your world changes.
* Get over yourself and start giving yourself.
* Find the benefit in every bad experience.
* If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
* Learn from a bad experience and make it a good experience. . . . . .
RT @phchang73: @AcademicSurgery #ASC2016 #failingforward Melina Kibbe introduced with the Star Wars theme t.co/S3G6TnWhEN
RT @phchang73: @AcademicSurgery #ASC2016 #failingforward Melina Kibbe introduced with the Star Wars theme t.co/S3G6TnWhEN