Dr Jordan B PetersonVerified account

Failure is not an option. It's a requirement.

Cc @Madlala_TM

What about those of us who escaped poverty and familial dysfunction through STEM by being perfectionists, only to have it come back to bite us in the end for these very reasons?

The difference between the Successful Person and the Failure, is that the Successful Person has failed more times than the Failure.

Aka trial and error, the scientific method, etc. Centuries old. Nothing new under the sun. As to science, we've got a few too many charlatans today, who put science on a pedestal only when the data backs them up.

Or in Krauss' case, just make up stuff and never acknowledge the fundamental incoherence of the entire thing, then you never fail!

When I started looking at my failures as an opportunity to grow it took all of the stress and disappointment out of it and it merely became part of a process. I have far more successes than failures and focusing on failure itself doesn't help me in the least. Now I teach others

Thank you for the very interesting conversation! I heard @LKrauss1 say that education should be centred on questions not answers (why not both?). I wonder how rich a novice’s questions can be? Ought Education not be centred on intellectual risk taking (courageous curiosity)?

Sometimes just nothing works. There are people who die in poverty no matter how many different solutions they try.

Why is this guy so close to the camera