Design for Learning by Doing

Too Long; Didn't Read

T.S. Eliot once wrote that “April is the cruelest month.” As I enter the beginning of my last quarter on <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/02/24/nike-phil-knight-stanford/" target="_blank">655 Knight Way</a>, I’ve been reminded of <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47311" target="_blank">Eliot’s words</a> on the duality of hope and longing through my last posts on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-resilience-learned-jonathan-lu" target="_blank">resilience</a>. At the heart of resilience is the ability to embrace failure and learn from mistakes, a skill which requires practice as well as a balanced view of the world as a spectrum of shades between success and failure — concepts that are fundamental to <a href="https://dschool.stanford.edu/about/" target="_blank">design thinking</a>.