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“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
Seneca
Doing something that has never been done before (a world’s first) is difficult.
And failing.
Just ask pro freestyle mountain bike rider Matt Jones. He wanted to do a trick no one had every done before. So, he began practicing. And planning.
Back in March 2020, educators around the world had their first practice session for a world’s first.
Early in the video, he says, “This is the first practice session for a world’s first.”
Whether we wanted to do so or not, we were asked to move in-person instruction to remote instruction, a world’s first. And, initially, given little support to do so other than assurances that students and teachers weren’t going to be held responsible for much during those first few months.
And so, we failed. A lot.
