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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9357284" data-attributes="member: 6879661">With the new DMG coming out and hopefully a lot more inspired budding DMs, I reflected on the best way of learning. For me it’s much better to try and fail and learn from that then try and get it perfect first time round. I also heard a great line that went something like.Any basic people management course will tell you about the feedback look.1 - Have a plan2 - Have a go3 - Reflect on what worked and what didn’t4 - Make some changes… then go back to step 1In the spirit of humbleness would any other DMs out there like to share a time they tried something and it either didn’t work or only partially worked and reflect on how you would do it differently going forward. This is about the reflection as much as the problem. It doesn’t really matter what didn’t work or why or whose fault. The important thing is that it added to your experience.Here’s the caveat (and the reason I’ve marked this as +)…For this to work you need to come from a place of personal experience, not theory. You can disagree with the best method moving forward but you can’t tell the poster they were wrong for reaching their own conclusion or for making the mistake in the first place. You need to reflect on what you could do differently not what other people should have done (though communicating better might be reflection. This includes blaming the game. In other words “Don’t look out for the window, look in the mirror”If you can post one thing and how you would move forward in one post together, and save second issue and how you move forward with that for a separate post. Please feel free to post multiple issues and challenges.Remember, failing can be both embarrassing and take an emotional toll, but often because we expect to get things right and feel like we aren’t good enough if we fail. Whereas in fact being willing to take a risk even if you might get something wrong is very brave. Failing can also be really funny if you’re with people that laugh with you and not at you.</blockquote>

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