Motivate with Mistakes

A student once suggested to me that: curiosity is route to knowledge. The trick may be asking the right questions which stimulate our curiosity. Asking the right question may lead to other questions and other answers.

Here we have a special question mark. It is make up of other question marks. When we question something of interest, the mind and the body become oriented to it. (Click question mark to enlarge)Damon Weaver Asking Obama, 4min
Damon Weaver Interviews Obama, 10min

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes Wilde


Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind.

The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different integration, a different nervous and muscular and psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker, or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom. Bernard De Voto

Pessimistic professions: law (Martin Seligman) (risk averse, Murphy's Law)
Others possible: medicine, hazardous work, teaching (esp in difficult schools), rabbis.
Speed and efficiency are part of some job, so it is hard for people to take the time to think of changes and practice changes.  And there is the push for data and more data, before trying any thing new.

The lack of mutual trust in some professions, can make it difficult for collaboration and criticism to happened