http://www.duckbillstudios.com/webcontent Best Little Glass House in Georgia Wed, 16 May 2012 02:50:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.duckbillstudios.com/webcontent/281/learn-wrong http://www.duckbillstudios.com/webcontent/281/learn-wrong#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:20:22 +0000 brian http://www.duckbillstudios.com/webcontent/?p=281 Over the past 5 years, I’ve watched a lot of people learn to blow glass in our studio.  What strikes me is how people are afraid to make mistakes.  People who end up being pretty decent glassblowers made a lot of mistakes while learning.  They didn’t get discouraged but analyzed the failures and adjusted their technique.  I’ve been watching a lot of TED recently (which is a fantastic resource for lectures on the most obscure subjects) and ran across this lecture which talks about how as a society that we have been conditioned to fear failure.

]]> http://www.duckbillstudios.com/webcontent/281/learn-wrong/feed 0 http://www.duckbillstudios.com/webcontent/189/interesting-video-human-morals http://www.duckbillstudios.com/webcontent/189/interesting-video-human-morals#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:29:49 +0000 admin http://www.duckbillstudios.com/webcontent/?p=189 This is an interesting video from Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely about the hidden reasons we think it’s OK to cheat or steal (sometimes).

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