You hear it a lot in modern education, the tech world, and the arts: that it is very important to stop working, to make errors so that you can gain from them and improve at whatever you do. However that usually accepted wisdom is incomplete.

In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman (), we look at how failure can cloud your ability to learn and to improve.

Joseph Herscher () is developer of the wildly successful YouTube channel Joseph's Makers (). He constructs elaborate and whimsical gizmos that carry out simple jobs in excessively made complex ways. You may know them as Rube Goldberg machines (). Joseph's devices take months to build– and frequently lots and dozens of requires to capture on video in a single shot. That's due to the fact that there are a lot of points of failure, it's unusual for these elaborate devices to work perfectly.

All that to state, Joseph Herscher is no stranger to failure. But his work highlights a positive technique to a negative experience. Irritating as it can be, failure is a great way to gather useful info..

You'll hear the story of one device that nearly didn't work at all, due to the fact that of an uncooperative child. But, in the end, Joseph's Cake Server () was a substantial success, amassing millions of views online.

Next, Katy consults with Lauren Eskreis-Winkler () about her research with Ayelet Fishbach () on how we tend to ignore some or all of the information in failure, in part since failure is uncomfortable and ego-threatening.

You can read more in the paper "Not Knowing From Failure– the best Failure of All ().".

Lauren Eskreis-Winkler is an assistant teacher of management and organization at the Kellogg School of Management () at Northwestern University ().

Lastly, Katy gives you advice on how to much better share vital feedback, and how to restrict the ego-threatening aspects of failure by adopting a development frame of mind.

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