Making the Most of Your Mistakes
About this episode
The episode discusses how to learn from mistakes and features a conversation with researcher Amy Edmondson about constructive failures.
When you're learning, or trying new things, you're going to make mistakes. The trick is to try to fail in a way that gives you useful information. This week, we revisit a favorite conversation with researcher Amy Edmondson. She explains the difference between constructive failures and those we should try to avoid. Then, John Dinsmore answers listener questions about the psychology of debt, in our latest installment of Your Questions Answered.
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