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[GH] From John Bilotta on learning from failure :
Gordy,
Probably way beyond our normal conversation about fly casting, but I just
wanted to pass this on, some of what is covered in this Harvard Business
Review article and the online video about learning from failure I found
useful in my ongoing thinking about teaching.
Chrs
John
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[GH] John,
Digressions of this sort may annoy some, but I look at them as grist for the teaching mill. Mental gymnastics can be informative and fun !
Your link including the video is worth taking the time to view.
We often teach that the way fly casting students learn, is by SEEING, (visual), HEARING, (Auditory), TACTILE / KINESTHETIC (feeling), and COGNITION (understanding).
We may add a few important other means of learning such as :
TRIAL & ERROR (Learning from failure followed by change and repetition.)
INTUITION (Sudden assumption which works.)
SERENDIPITY (Accidental/incidental use of a technique which happens to be successful).
"GEDANKEN" EXPERIMENT " ( Invention which comes of mental experimentation). *
"SLEEP LEARNING" (Going to sleep at night after mulling over a problem and having solutions emerge in dream or reverie format.)
SCIENTIFIC METHOD ( formal hypothesis followed by physical experiment.)
CONSIDERING and BALANCING the opinions of others.
As well as :
COMBINATIONS of the above methods.
We are way beyond the "monkey sees, monkey hears, monkey does" stage !
* GEDANKEN EXPERIMENTS and the RELATIVITY OF SIMULTANEITY, by Gary E. Bowman, 2005, Eur. J. Phys. 26 # 6. ( Albert Einstein used his famous gedanken (thought) experiment of a train struck by two lightning bolts to illustrate the relativity of simultaneity. He discusses foundational and pedagogical aspects of this experiment and of a lesser known but conceptually simpler alternative gedanken experiment.)
Gordy
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[GH] While we are taking a moment to digress, I received this from Chuck Easterling :
Hi Gordy,
It is mea culpa, as opposed to mia culpa.
I meant to mention to you I am reading "Younger Next Year" and was wondering if you have read it and if so your opinion.
This book was mentioned in a saltwater fly fishing magazine and basically it deals with staying fit as we age. I am enjoying it--very
Chuck
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[GH] Chuck,
Well, then, "Mia Culpa" might well be MEA MAXIMA CULPA !!
So happens that my Cuban friend does insist on spelling it like the girls name, "Mia".
The TV episode in 2007-2009, MIA CULPA may have been occupying a crevice in my brain. Madeline Zima played the character, Mia Lewis. It's director, Stephen Hopkins called it a "Californication" ! Now that is top notch wordsmithing !
Of course you are correct that the Latin word is correctly spelled, "Mea"
I have not read, "Younger Next Year". Now I will. (I've already sent for a copy.)
Best,
Gordy
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