Always stinks to get a grant rejection. I'm glad I'm at a point in my professional life that it doesn't ruin my day, but it is still disappointing.

Rejection is a part of doing science, and these ideas are good ones, and we'll work to find money to fund them somewhere else.

I try to be transparent about how much #rejection I experience in my career, and I track paper and grant rejections on my website if you are curious

#FailForward

aurielfournier.github.io/rejection/

An exemple of one of the things I like from PbtA and the Fail Forward

Last friday night while playing Thirsty Sword Lesbians a character rolled a Fail while trying to disguise herself into a guard. The situation was the character was trying to free some people but they did not wanted to be saved because they were afraid of the consequences. That's the reason she tried to disguise herself into a guard: to led them into freedom.
And it was a fail. So the classic fail-in-the-task mindset demanded the prisoners to say "booh, It's only you in disguise", what I think is boring and kills the mood and erases the good idea of the Player to use her Disguise Move in such way.
Instead of that, I made two guards appear demanding identification. So we had a classic scene from a TV show, and the character decided to fight, so we had a good fight, and everything went on smoothly.

What I mean is this kind of fails, not attached to the task but attached to the story, with scalating problems, is much more interesting and apoealing to me and PbtA gives me a structure (DM Moves applied when Fail) and mindset (players know they do not risk only the task itself, indeed maybe the task is accomplished but the situation worses, I feel free to do it) to do it.

#ThirstySwordLesbians #TTRPG #FailForward #PbtA

🎲 #TTRPGTip: Embrace failure and learn from it. Not every dice roll goes your way. Use setbacks for character growth and unexpected twists. It's the thrill of the unexpected that makes the game truly exciting! 🎭🎲 #FailForward #TabletopGaming

This is a great event and concept.

(I first discovered it in Vienna, with the deputy mayor standing proudly beneath the banner, telling her tale.)

RT @FuckupNight@twitter.com

Hey, community! Here is our agenda for next week's events around the world. In a success-driven society, we share professional failure stories to normalize something most people struggle to talk about.

Get your ticket in our link in the bio!

#sharethefailure #failforward

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FuckupNight/status/1602116071850496000

Good reading and insights. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26210933 #buddhist #wisdom #failforward