{"id":13141,"date":"2015-08-20T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=13141"},"modified":"2015-08-20T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T18:28:12","slug":"knowledge-and-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=13141","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge and Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life. \u2014 E.F. Schumacher<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From a great Brainpickings essay, “What Children Can Teach Us About Risk, Failure, and Personal Growth<\/a>”<\/p>\n

along with this, from John W. Gardner:<\/p>\n

One of the reasons why mature people are apt to learn less than young people is that they are willing to risk less. Learning is a risky business, and they do not like failure. In infancy, when the child is learning at a truly phenomenal rate \u2014 a rate he will never again achieve \u2014 he is also experiencing a shattering number of failures. Watch him. See the innumerable things he tries and fails.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons why mature people are apt to learn less than young people is that they are willing to risk less. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,154,51],"tags":[202,192,224],"class_list":["post-13141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-the-work","category-from-the-quote-box","category-the-creative-process","tag-dothework","tag-process","tag-quote"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-3pX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13142,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions\/13142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}