Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better

Recently I stumbled upon the mysterious and amazing mind of Samuel Beckett, and I began to realize that his quotes seemed to resemble a lot of what I was doing for the PLN class. Indeed I’ve tried on new ideas and many failures followed, but after every failure I feel as if I’m learning something.

My previous attempts in making myself open and my project open has been a success, but I haven’t been able to move further. As the days go by I feel as if I’ve just stopped in my steps and currently I’m just facing a huge wall in front of me. But I don’t know what this wall is, and sometimes I really don’t want to know.

I always thought that I faced the challenge of time. Sometimes I couldn’t really find the time to overcome either the time difference I had with the other people around the world or I was more focused on passing my classes rather than doing well in them. But then after my recent attempt on grabbing the Asian world as a focus, I realized that it wasn’t really the lack of time I had, it was just from the lack of confidence. I’ve said that I’ve tried and I’ve failed, but in a better way and learned that things would turn out to be better. But it just feels as if I’m being told not to do things another way, since I have this gut splitting feeling that I would fail again.

Yes indeed Samuel Beckett used to say “Try Again, Fail Again, and Fail Better”, but then Homer Simpson would always say that “Failure always comes from trying”. To tell you the truth I respect both of these people, and it may sound like a joke. But I am serious about the fact that we have a lot to learn from Homer Simpson. He would also be a great man to talk with when it comes to racist and stereotypes, but unfortunately he only exists in an electronic box.

So I guess I can say that I’m stuck with the fact that I haven’t moved on (from just writing), but I guess I just need more time to think to myself, “Is this what you really want?”.

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A Look At Myself And Where I Stand

The more emphasis we put on the idea of “races” it seems like there is a proportional increase in racism and stereotypes. This idea brings back my previous post on the relationship between education and racism/stereotypes, Education and Stereotypes?.

Is knowledge and learning actually the real criminals to blame? or were we just born with the idea of discriminating people. To me it just seems like a matter of time. Yes I’m talking about the same time, which is a fourth dimensional object, and is probably the most powerful object that ever existed. We all know that humans are the most intellectual species on this planet, and that we develop more and more as time goes by. But this cannot happen with just education and some experiences with reality. So how does this relate to stereotypes and racism? Well if your asking me, I believe that we just don’t have the ability to become a racist or stereotypical person. I mean that no one is “born to be a racist”. We learn that there are different people in this world, we learn that people don’t share the same history, and we learn in many ways that our ethnicity is the best. I might be wrong and please correct me if I am, but this it what I’ve learned from the society and I know that it will go on.

From all this learning I’ve come to one decision for my grade for the work I’ve done in February. I think I deserve a B- at least. I haven’t been able to produce a hard product of what I’m doing so far, but I’ve been able to make more connections with people around the world. I’ve gotten a contact in China now, but all I know about him is that he is a government official who works at a Chinese educational facility in Macao. A great relief is that he speaks English (British English, since he says he learned his English from Hong Kong), which is a great relief to me since I don’t have the capability of speaking Chinese fluently yet. But one of the major problems I faced was from the fact that he doesn’t know Skype or any other web 2.0 skills. So I’m still in the conflict of either moving on to another person who knows how to work with Tech, or actually try teaching him some basic communication skills. I hope to have it soon and I know that I won’t need to worry about the time difference, since there is only a one hour difference. Good Luck to myself and everyone else in the Fight Against Stereotypes and Racism.

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