Comments on: Purposefully doing things extremely wrong provides us with a lot more information

By: Shadeburst

Shadeburst — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 06:25:36 +0000

In that case Joe Biden must be the best informed person in the world, closely followed natch by Bad Vlad, BoJo and local hero Cyril Ramaphosa.

By: Wang Wei Lin

Wang Wei Lin — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 01:20:44 +0000

Anything worth doing well is worth doing wrong until you learn to do it right.

By: Phil B

Phil B — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 23:45:44 +0000

As a project engineer, my strong belief is that you learn a lot more from a bad project where everything goes wrong than one where it proceeds without a glitch. Learning to recover from the mistakes and solving the problems encountered develops your skills far more quickly than a series of “no problem” projects.

By: Grasspunk

Grasspunk — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 20:47:22 +0000

The only lesson I teach my kids when they learn how to drive on the farm is how to use the clutch. This research makes me think the most important part of the lesson is near the beginning when I ask them to deliberately stall to get a feel for it. My motivation was to have them avoid panicking when it happens but now I’m wondering if other benefits are more important.

Note: this is a pickup truck in a large field. After lesson one they are free to teach themselves anything they want. They’re well motivated because they use the truck to carry chicken feed and it is less work than shouldering 25kg/55lb bags. As you would expect under French law, when they get older they need conventional lessons in order to drive on the street.