Think about a time when you made a mistake. What was your response to that mistake, and how did it make you feel? Did that mistake mean anything about you? Did it indicate incompetence? Mistakes are ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- A fear of failure can hinder academic success. Many students become so focused on avoiding errors that they don’t challenge themselves at school. And now remote ...

Life can be incredibly confusing. We all want a good life filled with happiness and peace. We yearn to wake up each morning with gratitude and end our days with a sense of fulfillment. But achieving ...

As a leader in the AEC world, you’ll likely find yourself making certain mistakes over the course of your career. As long as you are identifying these mistakes and learning from them, these valuable ...

Multiple groups of college students sit together at tables studying in Baltimore, Maryland. Courtesy Eric Chen. (Photo by JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado/Getty Images). Whether you’re starting out in real ...

Whoever said that we learn from our mistakes made a mistake. Albert Einstein said it, Winston Churchill said it, and they got it wrong. It turns out that we are better at learning after doing ...

As a business leader, when a mistake occurs, how do you approach learning from it? If you have no process for doing so, you are likely to fall into some timeless wisdom from Henry Ford, who once said, ...

Starting a new job and adjusting to that new environment can be difficult under the best of circumstances. Tossing in a global pandemic that brings the entire world to a standstill three months into ...

In 1898, Dr. Edward Thorndike formulated a principle that would become known as Thorndike’s Law of Effect. Thorndike asserted that actions that result in a satisfying (rewarding) outcome are likely to ...