Tag: falling short

Why I’m Thankful for My Mistakes

August 10, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

I used to be deathly afraid of making mistakes. Not only as a straight-A student, not only as a classical pianist, but also as a person. I had this ideal of who I was supposed to be and found the idea of slipping outside of those imagined lines unbearable. It has taken a lot to learn to accept the hot […]

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Teacher Life: Everything is Okay (despite my failures)

April 23, 2016.Reading time 7 minutes.

There was this moment yesterday when I caught myself scolding some students for playing the dot game wrong. (You know, that game where you try to connect dots on a piece of paper into squares, whoever finishes the square gets to claim it?) Some of my students had not understood my explanation…

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