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  • 1.  Teaching students how to not fear failure

    Posted 04-08-2014 08:58

    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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  • 2.  Teaching students how to not fear failure

    Posted 04-09-2014 09:58

    Dear Chihmao,

     

    You present an interesting problem with excellent pedagogical and research potential. if you want to separate personal failure from business failure, so that each student can start over with a new business after the student's previous business fails, then I might have the game you need. I generally run my game over a semester, so doing it over three hours would be an interestingly new application. One might fear that a new application would fail, but I suppose you don't fear failure yourself.

     

    You can try out the demo of my game through my link below, or more directly from here: http://pages.towson.edu/precha/GEO/index.htm

     

    Best,

     

    Precha

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    Precha Thavikulwat, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management

    Business Area Editor, Simulation & Gaming

    Department of Management

    Towson University

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    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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  • 3.  Teaching students how to not fear failure

    Posted 04-09-2014 10:02
    In our creativity class we do a "Failure Faire"... We set up several stations, each focused on a different aspect of risk taking, including physical risks, intellectual risks, social risks, emotional risks, and financial risks. The students circulate through the stations and the debrief afterward focuses on how they handled each type of risk and failure.

    Note, I write about this in detail in my book, inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity. This is in chapter 9, titled Move Fast - Break Things.

    Best,
    Tina


    On Apr 8, 2014, at 5:57 AM, Hsieh, Chih-Mao wrote:

    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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    Tina L. Seelig, Ph.D.
    Professor of the Practice
    Management Science & Engineering
    Stanford University

    Stanford Technology Ventures Program


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