{"id":2926,"date":"2013-12-08T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/good-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2013-12-08T08:07:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T13:07:11","slug":"good-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/good-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/29\/intuition-pumps-daniel-dennett-on-making-mistakes\/\" target=\"_self\">excerpt<\/a> from the book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Intuition Pumps and Other Tools For Thinking<\/span> by Daniel Dennett:<\/p>\n<p><em>The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them \u2014 especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are. \u2026 The trick is to take advantage of the particular details of the mess you\u2019ve made, so that your next attempt will be informed by it and not just another blind stab in the dark.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b019b025dc172970c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P-0442\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b019b025dc172970c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b019b025dc172970c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"P-0442\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this interesting excerpt from the book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools For Thinking by Daniel Dennett: The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them \u2014 especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}