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SleepyHollow, inK.'s avatar

I'm all about failure! I'm a pro!

At my 20th college reunion I staged a panel on failing better since I didn't want to hear everyone just bragging about their great boring successes like usual. It was so much nicer to learn from mistakes.

And also - OMG smell. I always used to say computers won't be complete until they are scratch and sniff. Who knew there was a guy out there trying to add smell. Fun.

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Such touching writing, Sabrina ... giving me pause to think. I know - and I have recently started to open myself up to it - that I have avoided trying a bunch of new things because 'I only want to do things I think I'll be good at' ... a fear of (public) failure, having grown up in a competitive work environment, a hierarchy, within which you had to claw your way up. I'm older now, of course, better able to acknowledge that learning only comes with trying. Your writing is very insightful.

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