Vernacademia Season 1: Episode 16: Failure in Real Life and Video Games

An examination of the concept of failure handling and how we approach it in real life, with a focus on education systems at large and how video games effect one's personal approach to failure handling.

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Cliff Notes
00:07 Grab Bag Overview
00:42 Topic Intro (Failure in Real Life and Games)
01:50 Failure Handling in Education vs in Gaming
02:52 The matter of perspective
04:27 Key Difference: Non-Static Situations
06:47 Test Structure in Education
08:35 Maths :: Wrote Memorization vs Actual Understanding
11:37 The effect of Environs where failure is OK
14:13 The effect of the fear of failure
15:01 Failure analysis
16:31 Perspective :: Meshed Failures and Successes
17:32 Games as a place to experience and approach failure
18:48 Games as a confidence and perserverence builder
20:58 Wrap up Overcoming Fear of Failure
21:28 Sign Off