I happened to be "lurking" in the #lrnchat community this evening as part of my EME6414 assignment, and ran across an interesting topic that I was unprepared to see - negative experiences, so I decided to check it out.
Apparently there is a meeting this Thursday at 8:30 EST around negative experiences. While I was on the site below, links to several articles were provided. How interesting!
http://lrnchat.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/lrnchat-july-18-the-power-of-negative-experiences/
I am tempted to check out the meeting Thursday! To be honest, however, I am not sure how to attend! If my classmates can check the link out above and provide some insight I would be most appreciative! :) Do I just check in at #lrnchat on this date and time and see what happens? I will give it a try.
Check out this article on negativity:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1817329,00.html
How fascinating! Thank you for sharing. I would have to agree, in my life, that I have learned much more from bad experiences than the good ones. The article from Time said that we "use of experience to guide future behavior." This is probably particularly true with bad experiences. How much do you really learn from the pleasant, everyday experiences of life? I'm not attempting to discount good experiences. They are pretty amazing! However, the growth and change that you achieve as a human being probably results more often from the not so great experiences.
ReplyDeleteAbigail, you are most welcome, and I agree it is fascinating! I even drove to work this morning thinking about this, and realizing that all of my major learnings were from the negative experiences I have had. It's sort of mind boggling to me! :)
ReplyDeleteBarb,
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting and very true. I've always been told you learn more from bad leaders than good leaders- sort of the same thing, you really remembers the bad stuff and it helps you to never emulate those behaviors. I have no idea about LRN chat so I can't help you there but should be an interesting chat!
you can search for #lrnchat in Twitter search tonight 8.30 EST and participate in the discussion. You can also use live-chat services such as TweetChat and TweetGrid to participate in the discussion.
ReplyDeleteHope this helps-
Wow! I wish I had seen this earlier in the week! I agree with both you and Abby that you do learn more sometimes from the negative. The key is being able to learn from it and release it so it doesn't poison the great experience that normally follows a bad one.
ReplyDeleteIntresting trivia about bad experiences: If you have a great sales experience, you will tell on average 3 people. If you have a negative one, you will tell 5-10! Something to ponder, we keep the good, share the bad...
Let me know how the chat was.