Don't let fear of failure hold you
back; if we are not failing we are not trying anything innovative.
James Torio
What
Is A Blog? New Media Culture 101
James Torio has recently taken on the challenge to write about blogs
and media phenomenon they represent: blogs are social change tools,
business venues, support and development instruments, wonderful
marketing channels, gateways to innovative learner-centered education
and peer-review journals for. ...
...What bloggers have yet failed to achieve in full, is having been
able to clearly communicate and explain the power that these tools
offer to the non-technical person. The immense opportunity yet untapped
by our many brothers and sisters who while having a sharp mind and
desire to have an impact by communicating to others their ideas are
still stuck in sending emails to their network of contacts....
Learning
- Educational Technologies :: Robin Good's Latest News]
Communication as we know it is rapidly
changing. We have an abundance of tools and we have only begun to
figure out their potential. Communication is no longer about sending
messages but opening up a dialogue and providing content that people
will want to share with others. People are using media on their terms;
when they want it, how they want it and what they want to do with it.
It is time to join the conversation.
Failure
is never quite as freighting as regret....
I stumbled upon this the other night and can't shake it out of me mind.
Failure is trying to achieve something but failing short, or not
getting the desired results. You learn and grow from failure, I think
somewhere along the line somebody gave failure a negative connotation
it doesn[base ']t deserve.
I remember years ago watching an interview on TV with Michael
Jordon; there he was sitting on the bleachers in what looked like a
high school gym, sitting around him were high school basketball players.
The man conducting the interview said to Jordan, "You are
undoubtedly the greatest basketball player who ever lived, how does it
feel to fail and not make it as a professional baseball player?"
As I lay there on my couch I began to sit up, I suddenly had that
nervous feeling in my stomach as I wait in anticipation to hear what
Jordan is going to say.
In a calm, warm voice he said, "I tried the best that I could, and
that is all I can do."
That statement has been burned in my brain for years; it's about trying
your best!
Regret on the other hand, well that is freighting; regret is not
thinking things through, not trying hard enough, knowing you could have
done things differently, giving up.
We learn from failure, regret eats at us because somewhere inside of
us we know we should have tried harder or could have made smatter
decisions.
Don't let fear of failure hold you back; if we are not failing we are
not trying anything innovative. Failure is never quite as freighting as
regret....
[everyhuman] aka James Torio
12:44:47 PM 
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