#Embrace failure in learning

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How to Make Learning a Lifelong Adventure

Introduction: The Joy of Lifelong Learning Have you ever wondered what it takes to keep the flame of curiosity alive throughout your life? Why do some people seem to thrive on learning new things while others stagnate? Lifelong learning isn’t just about formal education; it’s a mindset, a lifestyle. In this article, we will explore how you can make learning an ongoing adventure, full of…

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im someone who stuggles not to let his curiosity and drive sometimes (often) cross over into an overwhelming and maladaptive need for answers, for explanation, for certainty. someone who, historically, sees making art as a primarily intellectual exercise. this is not inherently a bad thing, we all have our temperaments and this kind of attention can be a strength. but, you know that artist who makes a painting, and then only wants to show it while explaining it to you? thats me, sometimes, more often than i like. every story i used to write had another hundred page document behind it, explicating every single choice -- often i would simply read that, instead of ever actually write the story itself. the explanation precedes everything. the answers alone are the experience.

david lynch's work and philosphy has been and is a vital foothold in my efforts to learn to love the questions as our breath. learn to appreciate intuition and dreams, trust them instead of fear them. learn to see that the world has so much confusing, uncertain, strange beauty, that can be terrifying but turns sublime when you cease rejecting it from fear. when you embrace the unknown and dont try to immediately & anxiously explicate it all away, a whole new world opens up to you. that you need the darkness in order to dream, and you need dreams in order to live fully immersed in what the world has to offer. a foothold in learning to be okay with abstraction, with imperfect subjectivity, with uncertainty. to know it is not anthitetical to truth and meaning. know that to skillfully make ideas come alive into a work *is* to rationally pin them down, but that you cannot lose sight of the intuition they were born as.

his artistic intuition reminds me of what i need to have -- the trust and humility for experiencing the inexplicable and understanding that to be enough. a devotion to ideas and their realisation. a balancing force, for my endless inquiry -- to not forget to live the question in my the search for an answer. to allow some thing to go without clear or universal explanation, allow for some things to remain unresolved, allow for others to have that be their resolution. it's why his work equal parts captivates me and disturbs me -- i am very bad at this. but feel in my heart a need to get better at it. to be a better artist, a better thinker, a better searcher, a better person. you need to feel it, intuitively, quiet your endless noisy need for an answer and simply let it fill you up, let it resonate intuitively, and find in that how life makes sense to you and you alone. mediation, mindfulness, humility to sit with abstraction without trying to pin it down. more and more i try to understand this. some things don't need to make perfect sense. some things dont need answers, or their answers are not the point. some things dont need anything but to be experienced as they enter you -- like dreams do. that can lead you to the answer, and that can also be enough in itself. that can be just an intrinsic value in being alive to experience it. and so often, it is all in conversation with the search for joy. it's why he feels so captivating, so unique, so tremendously alive. why people use the word "visionary" when talking about him. because he knew how to use his medium in all the potential he could see, so that it let you live in the strangeness and questions. he understood them as sublime, he understood them as enough, he understood them as a joy. he understood them as beautiful. and his memory will remind me to do the same; always to seek the space to dream.

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Living Below Your Means: A Millionaire's Financial Secret

Unlock the financial secrets of millionaires! 💰 Learn how to live below your means and adopt millionaire habits. Read the full blog - Link-in-bio #FinancialSuccess #MillionaireMindset #SmartGoals #MillionaireThinking #Wealthy #Save #LiveBelowYourMeans

Have you ever wondered how some people manage to become millionaires without having a high-paying job, winning the lottery, inheriting a fortune, or starting a successful business? How do they accumulate wealth and achieve financial freedom while others struggle to make ends meet? The answer is simple: they live below their means. Living below your means is a financial strategy that involves…

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Thursday Motivation: Rising Stronger After Every Fall

Written by Delvin Welcome to the Thursday Motivational blog post! Today, we draw inspiration from the wise words of Nelson Mandela, who reminds us that true greatness lies not in avoiding failure, but in our ability to rise up each time we stumble and fall. Life is a journey filled with ups and downs, and it is through our resilience and determination that we can achieve remarkable things. So,…

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The Power of Overcoming Fear: Unraveling the Meaning of a Profound Quote

What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it? The last thing I searched for online was the meaning of a quote I stumbled upon during my morning reading. The quote said, “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” Intrigued by its profoundness and resonance, I wanted to understand its origin and delve deeper into its…

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༺ Prodigal Lamentation ༻

In naivety, he longed to see,tomorrow’s wings’ silvery tips,in a distance, dream-drawn carriagea pair of feet well-worn,taciturn from all the tumbles they took.Yet with pride, they pocked the dirtwith thuds planted deep.Humble is a man, bled from hubris’ fault,upon return, in the gloamingdrags his threadbare soulweary from all the thorns he cut.—And he, beaten to a pulp, has aged well,his bruised…

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Failure Is a Blessing

Failure is one of those words that makes people uncomfortable. It carries weight, shame, and disappointment. Nobody wants to fail, and most of us try our best to avoid it. But life has a strange way of teaching us that failure isn’t always the enemy. In fact, it’s often the very thing that shapes us. It breaks us open, clears our path, and forces us to grow. It’s a hard lesson, but failure can be…

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XIII. It is always better to say, to do

Paris, ‘Champs Elysée, Louis Vuitton’ © It is always better to say, to do Since a mistake can be forgiven A wasted chance is never recovered (From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection Of Poems‘) Here our author is again exhorting his readers to overcome their fear of failure, he contends that it is always better to try and fail than not try and regret. As the time wasted can never…

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Turning Failure to Fuel Growth

Daily writing promptHow has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?View all responses I don’t see failure as an end—just a chance for a do-over. A few years after taking a break to have my baby, I took on a paid job behind the camera again. I was excited to get back into it and put my heart into the work. When I showed the photos to others, they said they looked great. But…

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Turning Failure into Fuel for Success

How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Failure is something we all try to avoid, yet it often turns out to be the best teacher. Looking back, one of my biggest failures was a project I was passionate about but couldn’t see through to success. At the time, it felt like a dead-end—months of hard work, late nights, and sacrifices, only to watch it unravel. But in…

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"Rise Above Your Struggles: Define Your Purpose with Resilience | Motivational Quotes & Mindset"

"You are not defined by your struggles—what defines you is how you rise above them and move toward your purpose. Embrace every challenge as an opportunity to grow and refine your inner strength.

With unwavering determination and a focused mindset, transform obstacles into stepping stones on your journey to greatness. Let your resilience fuel

🤗💖Thank you for your time. follow me for more inspiring content"

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Why Hard Work Triumphs Over Talent

Introduction: The Age-Old Debate Have you ever wondered why some people with incredible talent don’t seem to achieve their full potential? Meanwhile, others with average abilities go on to accomplish amazing things. The answer lies in a simple truth: hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. While natural ability can give you a head start, effort, persistence, and dedication are the…

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Failure? Nah, Just Lessons in Disguise

Okay, real talk: failure? It’s not the end. It’s just a lesson in disguise.

We all have those moments when things don’t go as planned. Maybe you missed the deadline, maybe that project didn’t take off, or maybe that relationship didn’t work out. But here’s the thing—those failures? They’re teaching you something. Maybe it’s patience, maybe it’s resilience, or maybe it’s just that you know now what doesn’t work.

The best part? You get to decide how you view it. You can look at it as a setback, or you can look at it as the universe pushing you toward something better. It’s all in how you frame it.

So don’t be afraid of the missteps. They’re the stepping stones to your growth. You’re not failing—you’re learning. And that’s something to be proud of.

Have you had a “failure” that ended up teaching you something you didn’t expect? Drop it in the comments! Let’s share the lessons. 🙌✨

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Promises Broken

After the turn of the year, we’re pretty much maxed out. All things bright and shiny have drained our bank accounts, energy spent in equal measure. Fair to say, we wrap something in plaid paper, tie it up with ribbons, and cross our fingers, hoping for applause on the other end. Sure, the gift is in the giving, but isn’t someone always muttering, “Ugh, socks again? Blanket again? Mugs again?”…

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"The first modern attempt at transferring a uterus from one human to another occurred at the turn of the millennium. But surgeons had to remove the organ, which had become necrotic, 99 days later. The first successful transplant was performed in 2011 — but even then, the recipient wasn’t immediately able to get pregnant and deliver a baby. It took three more years for the first person in the world with a transplanted uterus to give birth. 

More than 70 such babies have been born globally in the decade since. “It’s a complete new world,” said Giuliano Testa, chief of abdominal transplant at Baylor University Medical Center.

Almost a third of those babies — 22 and counting — have been born in Dallas at Baylor. On Thursday, Testa and his team published a major cohort study in JAMA analyzing the results from the program’s first 20 patients. All women were of reproductive age and had no uterus (most having been born without one), but had at least one functioning ovary. Most of the uteri came from living donors, but two came from deceased donors.

Fourteen women had successful transplants, all of whom were able to have at least one baby.  

“That success rate is extraordinary, and I want that to get out there,” said Liza Johannesson, the medical director of uterus transplants at Baylor, who works with Testa and co-authored the study. “We want this to be an option for all women out there that need it.”

Six patients had transplant failures, all within two weeks of the procedure. Part of the problem may have been a learning curve: The study initially included only 10 patients, and five of the six with failed transplants were in that first group. These were “technical” failures, Testa said, involving aspects of the surgery such as how surgeons connected the organ’s blood vessels, what material was used for sutures, and selecting a uterus that would work well in a transplant. 

The team saw only one transplant fail in the second group of 10 people, the researchers said. All 20 transplants took place between September 2016 and August 2019.

Only one other cohort study has previously been published on uterus transplants, in 2022. A Swedish team, which included Johannesson before she moved to Baylor, performed seven successful transplants out of nine attempts. Six women, including the first transplant recipient to ever deliver a baby back in 2014, gave birth.

“It’s hard to extract data from that, because they were the first ones that did it,” Johannesson said. “This is the first time we can actually see the safety and efficacy of this procedure properly.”

So far, the signs are good: High success rates for transplants and live births, safe and healthy children so far, and early signs that immunosuppressants — typically given to transplant recipients so their bodies don’t reject the new organ — may not cause long-term harm, the researchers said. (The uterine transplants are removed after recipients no longer need them to deliver children.) And the Baylor team has figured out how to identify the right uterus for transfer: It should be from a donor who has had a baby before, is premenopausal, and, of course, who matches the blood type of the recipient, Testa said...

“They’ve really embraced the idea of practicing improvement as you go along, to understand how to make this safer or more effective. And that’s reflected in the results,” said Jessica Walter, an assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who co-authored an editorial on the research in JAMA...

Walter was a skeptic herself when she first learned about uterine transplants. The procedure seemed invasive and complicated. But she did her fellowship training at Penn Medicine, home to one of just four programs in the U.S. doing uterine transplants. 

“The firsts — the first time the patient received a transplant, the first time she got her period after the transplant, the positive pregnancy test,” Walter said. “Immersing myself in the science, the patients, the practitioners, and researchers — it really changed my opinion that this is science, and this is an innovation like anything else.” ...

Many transgender women are hopeful that uterine transplants might someday be available for them, but it’s likely a far-off possibility. Scientists need to rewind and do animal studies on how a uterus might fare in a different “hormonal milieu” before doing any clinical trials of the procedure with trans people, Wagner said.

Among cisgender women, more long-term research is still needed on the donors, recipients, and the children they have, experts said.

“We want other centers to start up,” Johannesson said. “Our main goal is to publish all of our data, as much as we can.”"

-via Stat, August 16, 2024