… succeed, remind yourself of your goal, and try attack the problem in another way. This is a categorically different kind of statement than, “try, try again.” I think this because the reassessment and questioning of goals is crucial. Example: Today, my crit group met to discuss a dialog etude we’d all tried (this one) and we found that despite some individual differences, nobody felt all that good about their results. Reframing the question as, “Did I achieve my goal?” was useful as we generally all felt we’d gotten something out of it, and also began discussing other ways of …