Regina Durgan’s TED talk has not left me since I first heard it a month ago. “Refuse to fear failure” or fail to create the amazing things you are capable of. For now, I’ll just leave you with some of my favorite quotes and thoughts (again playing with Storify here and their export to wordpress.com feature!):
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TED Talks “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced …
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Some of my favorite takeaways from this truly awe-inspiring talk:
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““When you remove the fear of failure, impossible things suddenly become possible” -Regina Dugan
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“When we let fear stand in our way, we stop doing AMAZING things. “Sure, good things happen, but amazing things stop happening” -Regina Dugan
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““We CANNOT both fear failure AND make amazing new things” -Regina Dugan
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““… we can change the world if we defy the impossible and we refuse to fear failure.” -Regina Dugan
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Remember:
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“In learning how to fly, many, many prototypes crash. “But there is no way to learn to fly like a hummingbird unless you fly” -Regina Dugan
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Close your eyes and take a moment to answer this question:
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““What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” -Regina Dugan
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“Answering this question makes “you begin to understand how the fear of failure constrains you” -Regina Dugan
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““Life gets interesting when we fail, because it’s a sign that we’ve surpassed ourselves.” -Clemenceau
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Notice this important difference:
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““Discouraging FEAR of failure” is not the same as “encouraging failure” -Regina Dugan
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As a teacher, I know I’ll be thinking back to the above quote. And Regina Dugan doesn’t dismiss the fact that refusing to fear failure is an easy task by any means.
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““Doubt & fear always creep in. We think some1 else, some1 smarter, more capable.. But there ISNT anyone else; THERES JUST YOU” -Regina Dugan
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My thought…
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“As a teacher, we can be that hand that says “let me help you believe” at the moment when our students reach that point of doubt and fear.
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In closing, if we think back to being a kid… When we fell all the time, and got right back up… When we scribbled on the walls and painted with out hands… When we played make-believe with our friends, real or imaginary…
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“As a kid, can you remember back to a time when “you believed in impossible things & you were fearless” -Regina Dugan
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“Remember being a kid, a time when u weren’t afraid of failure… “u were totally & completely in touch w your inner superhero” -Regina Dugan
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When you’re having a tough day, think back to that “inner superhero”:
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““There is only time enough to iron your cape… and back to the skies for you” -Jason Harley via Regina Dugan
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Oh… and lastly…
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““If you don’t already have a nerd in your life, you should get one” -Regina Dugan
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Much agreed. My favorite of the TED talks I’ve watched.