To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experience of sharping the artwork
Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn. Bad criticism is not the end of the world. As far as I know no one has ever died from a bad review. Take a deep breathe and accept whatever comes your way. These three ideas the importance of transparency in learning, acceptance of failure (think 20time), and the interconnectedness of the technology age we are all muddling through today.
Kleon writes in his book, "Humans being are interested in other human beings and what other human beings are doing". This brought together my discomfort with being a "resident" on the internet and my own love of instagram stalking. As a teacher if I choose to be transparent with my students, parents, and coworkers it creates a window for me to share myself with those that are most important to my educational life. This idea leads into my second point of focus the acceptance of failure (This is also discussed in chapter 8 Learn to Take A Punch), by sharing my learning I will enviably be sharing my failures as well. Teachers always discuss the topic that students have to be ok with failures and learn and grow from them. But how can we expect students to be ok with failure if we do not show them that everyone experiences failure? This is why a professional social media and internet presence is important. This brings me to my final idea about the interconnectivness of learning. I struggle when my technological educational journey began because I felt I had nothing to share because I didn't know anything yet. However, through this year and this book I have learned it is about starting somewhere, anywhere, and documenting it. All the amazing teachers I follow on twitter and who's blogs I read had to start somewhere just as I have.
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