Learning to Fail
Aaron DininStrategies for unlearning all the terrible lessons school taught you about failure, courtesy of that Duke professor who keeps popping up on your other social media feeds, too.
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The Double Cost of Failure
Both of my daughters have recently decided they want to learn to play piano. Mind you, as someone who was a massive “band nerd” in high school, I appreciate the value of a music education, and I’m excited.
At the same time, I also remember...
An Ordinary Tuesday
Everyone old enough to remember September 11th, 2001 has a story to tell about it. In this issue, I wanted to share mine.
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, I was a freshman at Duke, and I had a chemistry lab that started at 8:00 A.M....
“Because I Said So”
This week in my Learning to Fail class, I made my students build unicorn castles out of LEGO.
Yes, I realize that’s a weird sentence. And I’ll spare you the full explanation — there’s a video if you want it. The short version is I wanted t...
The Real Price of Knowledge
In a video I posted last week, I committed what sometimes feels like the cardinal sin of social media — I dared to mispronounce a word.
Horrifying, right? Or rather, I assume that’s what the Internet thinks about mispronouncing words becau...
The Best Decisions You’ve Never Made
This week was orientation for Duke’s incoming students. As a result, campus has been full of freshmen doing… well… the things freshmen do, including lots of welcome events and programs.
I’ve been to a handful of the activities, which is al...
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