[[Learning]] tags:: #note/thing | #on/failure | #on/learning people:: #people/ritamcgrath # Intelligent Failure Lon Setnik dates:: 2022-07-18 *If failure involves learning it is never failure. Design for learning with mindset, supporting the safety of the learning process, and do it in new areas.* **[[Intelligent Failure]]s involve careful thinking, don't cause unnecessary harm, and generate new knowledge.** - Explore the context, is it consistent, novel or variable? - Takes place in new territory  - Context provides credible opportunity to advance towards a goal - Informed by available knowledge  - As small as possible to promote learning This reminds me of [[climb till you fall]], how do you get the [[Feedback]] from [[Identifying Reality]] so that you can learn from failure It's kind of like how Paul's friends tested their own hypotheses, which led to so much amazing learning. [[epistemic humility]]. Don't think so much about being right when things are uncertain. The best we can do is articulate our assumptions, and we will invest in learning. The question is: Was what I learned worth the investment? ### What would the opposite argument be? Can you call it a failure if you're learning? ## Sources: Edmondson, A. C. (2023). [[Right Kind of Wrong - the science of failing well]] (First Atria books hardcover edition). Atria Books. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxHMDhSdTIU&t=257s ![[Right Kind 1.jpeg]]![[Right Kind 2.jpeg]]