Here's some questions you need to ask yourself. / What is it I'm really hoping to do? / What's the progress I'd really love to make? / What do I know currently / about how to achieve that goal? / What do I not know? / That's a gap / that you now want to figure out how to close. / So then you ask yourself, / what might I try next / to see what will happen? / Now, / it is never a good idea / to conduct / experiments in highly / risky environments. / So for example, / in aviation, / you learn and experiment with new moves in a simulator, / not in a real flight / with real passengers. / In healthcare, the same is true. / We experiment in the lab, / we don't experiment at the bedside. So / intelligent failures can really only happen in / situations where the stakes / are medium to low. // One of the things that holds us back / from taking risks, / from experimenting / is that we erroneously think the stakes are too high. / We think if we get it wrong, / it'll be awful / when in reality, / if we get it wrong, / it's just wrong. / Sometimes it's inconvenient. / It's almost always disappointing, / but it's not awful. / It's just new knowledge. / So we have to remind ourselves / of the true rational-stakes of a situation. / Low-stakes might be, / "Ah, someone might / laugh at us / or / disagree with us." / Who cares, right? // So you remind yourself that those things really / don't matter and should not hold you back.