Description
The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).
Publication Date
2-4-2016
Keywords
Fear of losing face; Over-engineering; Scientific research; Fear of risk; Risk taking; Classroom education
Introduction
Many people have written on the fear of failure. In many places it goes under the heading “fear of losing face.” I have visited several major laboratories and universities in Japan and China and come away with an uncanny feeling that in many instances they are held back by this fear.
Subjects
Failure (Psychology); Fear of failure; Research; Success; Learning; Education
Creator (Linked Data)
Bass, Michael, 1939-(VIAF); Bass, Michael, 1939-(LC)
Collection
Publisher
University of Central Florida
STARS Citation
Bass, Michael (2016). Don't be afraid of failure. UCF Today, 2016-02-04. Retrieved from http://today.ucf.edu/dont-be-afraid-of-failure/
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