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Weekly Roundup: Failure is Overrated, Brain Balance in Children, Mixed Emotions in the Brain, and Facial Expressions & Social Intelligence
Originally published on my Substack.
Let’s start off on the topic of failure and specifically — do we really learn from it?
Do We Learn From Failure?
This was a question that I reported on here:
In that research the researchers found that heart surgeons learned most when mistakes were in a sweet spot, not too often, and not too little. Likely because if it is too little we seem to think it was bad luck or chance, and too often and we fail to see clear patterns.
Another group of researchers around Lauren Eskreis-Winkler have now published a paper summarising 11 experiments with over 1’800 participants on the topic of failure. And what they found is that:
“People expect success to follow failure much more often than it actually does”
