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- 1. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Failing and recovering Isabel Evans fbcs citp [email protected] www.isabelevans.uk
- 2. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Abstract • Do you ever feel you have lost confidence in your own abilities? Why does this happen? Isabel Evans spends a lot of time painting. Someone once commented, “Why are you doing this, when you are not very good at it?” And gradually she stopped drawing and painting, after being intimidated by a conventional vision of what good art should look like. At the same time, she experienced a parallel loss of confidence in her professional abilities. Attempting creative pursuits like drawing and painting is essential to cognitive, emotional, creative abilities and she began to understand the correlation between her creative activities and her confidence. Making errors, being wrong, failing – that is a generous gift we receive when we practice outside our skill level. By staying in a comfort zone and repeating successes, we stagnate. As Isabel started to create again she thought “I don’t feel good at it, I do feel good doing it” The difference was that she was learning, having ideas and the act of re-engaging with failure, together with the comradeship of friends and colleagues, including at Women Who Test, Isabel has regained her confidence in her professional abilities, and been able to reboot her career and joy. Join Isabel to share a journey from self-perceived failure, to recovery and renewed learning.
- 3. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Where to start?
- 4. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans What is success? What is failure? What is reality?
- 5. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Here are some life milestones Alexander Calder
- 6. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans FAILURE… MY FINDINGS…
- 7. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Failure is the best option when… It is better not to succeed at this task
- 8. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Failure is a matter of opinion… This is someone else’s definition of failure “Why are you doing this, when you are not very good at it?”
- 9. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Failure is not an option sometimes… Yet it still happens… This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC “my job is to imagine dreadful things that haven’t happened yet, and then try and make them happen”
- 10. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Failure is the only possibility… It is impossible to succeed De Sautoy seeks the limits of knowledge Marcus de Sautoy “What we cannot know" is online at https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=xbo3NZdReEghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_du_Sautoy
- 11. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Failure is in our minds… Self confidence Expertise http://bit.ly/1Yl4znqhttps://vimeo.com/176695137 Imposter Phenomenon
- 12. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Failure is a continuous part of self- development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns • humbling• analysing • learning• refreshing Known knowns Known unknowns Unknown unknowns Unknown knowns
- 13. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Failure is how you learn This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC
- 14. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Failure is inevitable (at first…) I don’t (yet) know how to succeed – the joy is in trying, at all Decide PhD Apply for PhD course Start course Start research design Take quantitative methods module Change research design Start literature review Take qualitative methods module Change research design… Make plan Continue literature review Change my plan… Started…gathering data to help research design Interviews, workshops and surveys tools vendors Literature review Report back Redesign research… Prep for MSc… Redesign research…Etc…
- 15. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Failure at a weak point can be a benefit This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
- 16. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA Weak links can mean stronger ties
- 17. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Criticism is not the same as failure “Do not seek praise, seek criticism” Mads Soegaard “Start by giving praise” Dot Graham “Editors do not reject people; they reject pieces of paper with writing on them” Jerry Weinberg “someone will always give you a reason not to pursue your dreams if you ask them. So don’t ask” Tania Katan
- 18. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans My brain was trying to tell me… I was talking about it… How can we thrive? • It is hard sometimes… – to be in a team, to lead or to follow – to manage people and projects • Other people are hard to understand – they seem to behave and think differently to us • Sometimes – we feel treated badly – people get in our space and interfere – we feel rejected by others – we feel used – and helpless what can we do about it? Don’t be beguiled by “sunk costs”… Some parasites are quite attractive – but still make hard work for their team…
- 19. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Trying & failing versus not trying & not failing… STAREast 2016 Do something new; even if you know you’ll hate it (provided it is safe…) (if you want to…)
- 20. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Story telling Stand up comedy Allowing myself to be photo’d… And videoed… And interviewed… Learning trust…
- 21. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Have a coping strategy… This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-ND If you can’t cope, do it in this order…
- 22. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Breathe… • My yoga (& meditation) teacher • She says to me: – “stop trying so hard” – “yoga is not a competition” – “do what you can do” • She says – “remember to breathe”
- 23. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Repair…
- 24. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Find your purpose… Be Happy - Do Good Leave the world a better place than I found it
- 25. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Take advice from strangers… http://labyrinths.ca/
- 26. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Take advice from strangers… http://labyrinths.ca/ “The difference between a maze – where you get lost and stuck – and a labyrinth with a single path is just one wall, just one decision. You can change it.”
- 27. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Where to end? With a new beginning
- 28. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it Isabel Evans Failing and recovering Isabel Evans fbcs citp [email protected] www.isabelevans.uk