"We all fail" says @LaraVarpio leading off a mini plenary at #icre2020 on finding growth and opportunity in the face of failure.

Inability to perform.
Fracture under stress.
Lack of success.
Falling short.

Failure is common.
Failure is pervasive.
What matters is what you do with failure

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again" - Henry Ford

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Scholars across the globe discuss how they react to failure.

Wisdom from @LingardLorelei who authentically acknowledges the distress that failure elicits, and highlights that sharing can be a powerful next step.

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"Disappointment
Frustration
Sadness
Embarassment"

Coming from a #meded giant like Dr. Irby these words are powerful. Failure evokes deep emotions for so many of us.

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Interesting points from @DrDanSchumacher about how our interpretation of failure can relate to the self.

Is it possible to experience failure without attribituing to failure to the self?

Should we distance failures from who we are or embrace our imperfect selves?

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“Failure is part of life
and in fact,
if you didn’t fail
it means that you didn’t try.”

- @SaleemRazack

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“Be open to failure…use it constructively to improve and look towards the future.”

- @pim_teu

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I would tell my younger self to take a deep breath.

“We suffer more in imagination than reality” - Seneca

The fate of this failure is not in any way as significant as you might believe

@sherbino

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“I would tell my younger self to stop hanging out with people who pretend they’re perfect…Failure is inevitible. Failure is human and happens to everyone. Find a trusted community...”

- @LingardLorelei

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There is strength in community...Everyone is failing but not everyone is talking about it.

- @ReneeStalmeijer

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You

Will

Be

OK

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Thanking those who contributed, @meredithyoung1 highlights work on intellectual candor by Molloy and Bearman

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.13649

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First pearl from @meredithyoung1

Failure is only failure if you keep it to yourself.

Find your failure friends. Keep them close.

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Failure is only failure if you fail to learn.

If failure is inevitable and part of our jobs, then it is part of our jobs to learn from failure.

It is also part of our job to share it.

@meredithyoung1

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Failed projects are not failed scholarship.

Failures when shared make important contributions.

Journals like @pmeded have created space to share our failures.

@meredithyoung1

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Failed projects do not make a failed scholar.

Failure is the engine that moves science forward.

Failure is needed. It is how discoveries are made. It is how innovations take root. Failure is the basis of how we make knowledge.

Failures are precious

@meredithyoung1

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