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The Top 5 Tips To Turn Mistakes Into Teachable Moments
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The Top 5 Tips To Turn Mistakes Into Teachable Moments
// Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement
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Start accepting your faults
Lying to others makes you a liar but lying to yourself makes you a weak blindfolded man. You should always be truthful to yourself because if you will start lying to yourself then you can't expect yourself to grow any further in life. Start accepting your small mistakes and take responsibility for it. This habit will let you know your own mistakes because deep in your heart, even you know that it was your mistake but you keep lying to yourself and restrict yourself from improvement.Turn your mistakes into a learning tool
No one is a better teacher than your mistakes. Every mistake holds the secret key to unlock the door of your flaws, through which you can enter into the world of learning. Mistakes are a part of human nature and instead of getting demotivated and depressed, you should start learning from your faults. It will help you to know which part of your attempt stopped you from achieving it. Every mistake will teach you a new lesson and every lesson learned will bring you closer towards your goal.Don't be afraid of failure
Everything is not perfect in the world, and so does human actions, nature and thinking. Do you think that the greatest speaker of the world got praised for his first speech? Do you think that the best footballer player of the world scored the goal on his first attempt? Absolutely not. Most of the people don't get the chance to taste success in their initial attempts because an ideal success or achievement is a mix of endeavors, willpower, determination, and faults as well. So don't be frightened to fail and don't be frightened to make mistakes because if you are not making mistakes then you are not on the right path.Learn from others mistakes as well
Since your own mistakes are not enough to learn all the lessons of your life, therefore, you should learn from other's faults as well. Most of the people only see the successful side of famous personalities, friends, relative and neighbor but they miss the most valuable chapter of their life and that is the chapter of mistakes. You can learn from others faults and can try to never let it happen in your life again. Watching and learning from others faults is also a very valuable lesson of your life which can make you much wiser and good learner as well.Don't get stuck on your mistakes
Getting stuck at a mistake and then regretting it for your whole life is the worst thing which you can do. You should never get stuck at one phase of your life, attempt or endeavor. Think of mistakes as the place where you go daily for your singing classes. You go there, learn and then come back to your home but the one thing which everyone carries from that class is lessons and the same goes for your faults. You should face your faults, learn important lessons and then move on with your life. So instead of being afraid of failures, start learning from your mistakes because teachers can teach you lessons through other's case studies but mistakes teach you lessons from your own case study. Saurabh Gupta is a technical content writer at Cloudwalks, which provides accounting solutions like QuickBooks hosting, Drake hosting,etc. His area of expertise includes software, cloud computing, cybersecurity and life lessons.You've read The Top 5 Tips To Turn Mistakes Into Teachable Moments, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you've enjoyed this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
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Remembering Wendell Castle (1932-2018)
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Remembering Wendell Castle (1932-2018)
// Design MilkDesign Milk
Wendell Castle was known the world over for his contribution to the field of art and design, most notably his curvaceous and sculptural wooden pieces. I remember getting a personal tour of his workspace and studio, and it was an extraordinary space with room after room filled with machines and prototypes and materials. He was such an inspiration and a one of a kind. He will be very missed, but his legacy and influence on art and design will go on.
Wendell Castle, Arm in Arm, \\\ Courtesy of Friedman Benda
Wendell Castle, Black Widow \\\ Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Wendell Castle \\\ Photo by Lazer Inc.
RIT Professor and Chair of Industrial Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology, designer Josh Owen remembers him:
During my recruitment and onboarding to RIT 8 years ago, I was delighted to learn that world-renown artist, Wendell Castle was an active member of the RIT community. My new colleague, RIT industrial design professor and then Chair of ID, Stan Rickel, had developed a relationship with Wendell over several years prior to my joining the faculty and explained to me that Wendell had been a regular contributor to the ID department since their friendship was forged. When I asked why Wendell would be interested in industrial design, Stan explained: "Wendell trained to be an industrial designer. While he went on to lead the American Craft movement, his process is familiar to us. He speaks our language brilliantly".
Benda Wendell Castle, Double Chair \\\ Courtesy of Friedman \\\ Photo by Jon Lam
Josh Owen speaking with Wendell Castle
As a student of design history and its many streams of influence, I was already aware of Wendell's work and its place within the pantheon of experimentation relative to industrial design. I was delighted to help further integrate Wendell into our work in the department given Wendell's enthusiasm for doing so. To that end, Wendell regularly taught a graduate seminar allowing students to interact with him in an intimate setting. Wendell often joined ID Professor Gary Molinari's undergraduate ID students by offering live drawing demonstrations. He also regularly opened his studio to allow our cohort to peek behind the scenes into the inner workings of his unique practice, down the street from RIT.
Wendell Castle, Coat Rack \\\ Courtesy of Friedman Benda
For the past 7 years, I have brought students to design week in New York City each May and Wendell has always offered to guide student groups through the many galleries which represent him on memorable walking tours where we had to do our best to keep up with his pace. Each year since taking on the Chairmanship of ID, I have hosted an informal 'ID Faculty & Friends Back to School Party' at my home at the end of summer break. Wendell always attended and mixed casually with our faculty, old and new making them feel comfortable even as they knew that they were in the company of one of the art and design world's great treasures.
Molar Chair
Wendell Castle, Walnut Sculpture \\\ Courtesy of Friedman Benda \\\ Photo by Adam Reich
Several years ago, I began an archival initiative in my work in the Vignelli Center for Design Studies called "Product Timecapsule". The idea was to seek iconic modernist products to add in as hands-on study collections focusing on the developmental process behind the resulting end-products. To achieve these ends we must find useful examples of preeminent works of design which, through their associated artifacts of process, tell rich stories of innovation useful to students and scholars. When I asked Wendell what it would take to add his iconic 1969 molded fiberglass Molar Chair in to this initiative, he replied simply, "I'm sure it will fit in the back of your Honda Element".
Wendell Castle, Grand Whispers \\\ Courtesy of Friedman Benda \\\ Photo by Adam Reich
One of our former RIT ID Graduate students, Bridget Sheehan, who currently teaches classes for us and is also a full-time employee in the Castle Studio has been, as Wendell likes to say, "my right hand" in his for the past 3 years, providing living proof of the thread that binds us.
Wendell with RIT students
On a personal note, Wendell and I had been working together with colleague Wendy Marks of Shop One and Wendell's friend Kevin Marks on a philanthropic project, leveraging each of our personal 'brands' as designers to the service of RIT. We had been co-designing a set of bookends which we are producing in a limited quantity in order to generate funds for improvements in the industrial design studio at RIT. It has been a great honor but also a pure joy to 'play' with Wendell in the way that we designers are most at home. A pencil each and a few sheets of white paper is all we needed to be in our element. I'll never forget those wonderful moments where we were behaving like Jazz musicians performing live, exchanging the ideas that led to the final prototypes for this project; Bookends: Supporting ID Education at RIT. In some ways, those sessions represented everything Wendell has gifted us with: His enthusiasm, his eagerness to collaborate and share and his generosity to deliver his intentions with tangible and always elegant results. We will not forget the joie de vivre Wendell shared with us at RIT, in Rochester and beyond that etched those into the minds of our students, faculty and to me.
Wendell Castle, Remembering \\\ Courtesy of Friedman Benda \\\ Photo by Dan Kukla
Thank you, Josh, for sharing your personal story and thanks to Wendell Castle for the infinite inspiration and legacy of art + design. We'll leave you with Wendell Castle's 10 Adopted Rules of Thumb:
1. If you are in love with an idea you are no judge of its beauty or value.
2. It is difficult to see the whole picture when you are inside the frame.
3. After learning the tricks of the trade, don't think you know the trade.
4. We hear and apprehend what we already know.
5. The dog that stays on the porch will find no bones.
6. Never state a problem to yourself in the same terms it was brought to you.
7. If it's offbeat or surprising it's probably useful.
8. If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it.
9. Don't get too serious.
10. If you hit the bullseye every time the target is too near.
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FZD Term 3 Finals
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FZD Term 3 Finals
// Feng Zhu Design
It's week 14 at FZD, so that means final projects are complete.
Great work everyone! A big congrats to all our term 3 students and FZD staff. You've all invested hundreds of hours into the work and the results show. All the best to your future endeavours.
For more, please visit FZDSCHOOL.COM
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