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Three Little Pigs: An Allegory for Learning From Failure
“The Three Little Pigs” is a fable included in “The Nursery Rhymes of England” by James Halliwell-Phillipps, in 1886 and in “English Fairy Tales” by Joseph Jacobs, in 1890.
The fable is about three pigs who build three houses of different materials. A Big Bad Wolf blows down the first two pigs’ houses, made of straw and sticks, but is unable to destroy the third pig’s house, made of bricks. It is at that point the wolf climbs down the chimney and the pigs are saved because of a pot of boiling water that discouraged further intrusion.
The general accepted moral of the story is that hard work, taking the time to build your house out of brick, paid off in detouring a carnivorous animal attack.
This is fable is also about failure and the rest of the story is one of learning, if a follow up fable were written today to express our modern ecosystem of interdependent systems, people, and tools that drive an information economy.
New Book About Learning From Failure
I have conducted research over the last three years to answer a fundamental question: “How do you move forward from failure?”
While most of this imperative research is built upon a lifetime of anecdotal evidence, the first lesson learned from this research is that experiences with failure alone are irrelevant, unless a lesson or insight can be gained from it.?
That insight or metacognition can be activated and molded by a framework for learning.?
This is not a new framework, but rather a framework that has not been labeled nor introduced into the zeitgeist of learning or performance vocabulary.?From birth your mind naturally views situations and experiences in terms of learning.?You have been creating “Learning Frames” to explore and explain the world around you all of your life.?
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A Learning Frame?is how people view change, how they view learning, and their mindset toward failure and success.?Knowing about this framework changes the fundamental question of “How do you move forward from failure?” to “How do you learn from failure?”
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