Let's Normalize Failure (The Right Kind) | Manu Kapur

Let's Normalize Failure (The Right Kind) | Manu Kapur

An expert in failure shows us how to find success in the most counterintuitive way.

Manu Kapur is currently the Director of the Singapore-ETH Center, and Professor for Learning Sciences and Higher Education at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he also directs The Future Learning Initiative (FLI). Manu is also the Founding Chair of the ETH Zurich – EPFL Joint Doctoral Program in the Learning Sciences.



In this episode we talk about:

  • The definition of Productive Failure (a concept Manu developed that allows you to design for and harness failure for deeper learning)
  • Why we learn more from failing than from succeeding
  • The difference between desirable and undesirable failure
  •  The neuroscience of curiosity
  • Practical ways to incorporate productive failure into your daily life
  • How to get into your "failure zone"
  • Cool concepts like the looking back and moving the Gold posts
  • How to normalize failure and create environments in which other people feel safe to fail
  • The role of psychological safety and a growth mindset
  • And much more



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