forget feedback, just leave me alone

One of the biggest chalenges of this thesis is doing it alone. After learning the richness of working in teams, with an amazing group of highly driven, but also, very different folks, this project is like being sentanced to solitarty confinement. Had it not been covid, i dont know if i could have spent this much time at home, ass firmly seated at my desk. But as of late, another part of me just wants to be left alone. I see a bunch of posts all over our class slack chanel, and i just look away. Considering that the major premise of my solution relates to feedback, why am i not requesting any? A bit stems from embarasement. Im really not seeing my way through the fog, if this thesis actually comes together, i will be amazed. Ive got some chapterts written, but in terms of a red thread, theres none. Early on, when I went up in front of a startup group and shared the topic of my research, I knew better what my research was about, somehow, mpnts later, im finding it difficult to articulate what Im trying to do. If theres one thing I shouldnt do is hide from my classmates, so im going to make a pledge to share where im at with whoever is willing to listen. But just to see if i can wing it, here goes. My project is titled trial and failure. It sees failure from a positive perspective, as the requisite trigger for learning. How trial and error works is that we seek to corrcect our mistakes to avod the unfortunate outcomes they produced. Essentially, learning by doing is the learning strategy we use to develop, take learning to walk for example. Many unsucessful attempts lead to incremental improvements, that over time, allow us to explore the world on two feet instead of four. We apply this to the business world, and ask how might destigmatize failure in order to facilitate learning from errors. Oy, hardly an elevator pitch. this needs to worked on. But lets keep going. Failure is unpopular. Nobody weanst to be one, or be on the losing team, just ask Donald Trump. The thing is, there are a million errors gong on within business environments daily, but because its awkward to speak up and draw attention to a problem, neither are these problems fixed, nor is anything learned about what caused them, pretty much ensuring that they will continue. Get to the point. I decided to look at startups, to learn if these companies practice the fastfailing that they preach. Is this simply a slogan on a t-shirt spotted at a tech convention, or do new businesses accept and even embrace failure, allowing them to A. get it out the way early when its possible to fix, 2. learn from successive failures in order to improve their offering. still too long I spoke with a dozn or so startups, noty a large enough sampling perhaps for statistical accuracy, but through my interviews, I got a sense that small organizations really are more comfortable with risk, and are therefor more accustomed to failure. so then the question was, what methods can a moe established company implement that will encourage a culture of taking more chances, in order to learn from controlled experiments. The design solution I am proposing is fail positive workshop that will invvite participants to engae with their teammates, in order to gain trust, and start sharing. My hope is that these hands on excercies can work for an established company that is neither new nor particularly daring, and within an society where people are trained not to make waves. I am going to share my workshop with ikea, get feedback on what went well, and what can be improved. Ill revise my presentation taking the users needs into account, and present it once more. my god, is this wordy.