Hi Chih,
Did you see the movie Star Trek (2009)? There is a scene in which the Academy students have to deal with a battleship simulation called Kobayashi Maru Challenge that nobody has ever succeeded. After failing twice, James T. Kirk insist to be tested again. The scene is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6fMuUraWtc
Spock was the creator of the exercise and accused Kirk for cheating. Spock's explanation was that the exercise was build to fail, because the main objective was to confront the students with fear. Here is the scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs0J2F3ErMc
So, I have a class exercise that was built this way. Students try to solve in one hour a proposed problem, without knowing that it is unsolvable. After the deadline and the consequent frustrations, we discuss about the sentiment of failing, going into details on the learning process that would only arise with the failure experience. This is not about fear, which is a little bit more complicated (even at Spock's exercise, after all that was a simulation only) but is about failure, which is definitely a valuable experience for future entrepreneurs.
Only after the conclusions of the importance of failure in the entrepreneurial learning process, I show them these scenes of Star Trek and they have fun at the end.
I would be glad to share the exercise with you but it is in Portuguese (about 12 pages).
Rgds
Marcos Hashimoto
Faccamp - Brazil
Dear all,
I'm looking for a simple (but dramatic) classroom exercise – preferably experiential or physical – that can teach (undergraduate) students *how to not fear failure*. Ideally, it could be done inside the classroom and you could teach it to 40 students (from all majors and ages) in 3 hours in a non-boring way, and without requiring any kind of verbal presentation.
I have thought of this matter before, and I have some ideas, but I wonder out loud whether anybody else has already addressed this in class.
-Chihmao Hsieh
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
University of Amsterdam
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