Introduction: My Forays into Failure
All it took was a moment. I was 21. Till then, life was going exactly how I had dreamed of and trained hard for – becoming a professional soccer player. Then a snap, and I felt my knee give way. A bad tackle during a regular practice session had turned into my worst nightmare. It was a career-ending injury. My orthopedic surgeon assured me that I would walk again, but a professional career was not in the cards anymore. To this day, I am not completely over it. Like paper, once crumpled, it cannot be undone. Still functioning, but the scars remain for life.
People often ask me how I came up with the idea of Productive Failure, the notion that we could somehow intentionally design for failure and bootstrap ...
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