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I was going to write a similar story. I often share my story with high school students so that they understand it is ok to fail and not have all of the answers.
by wombatpm 5y ago
I was going to write a similar story. I often share my story with high school students so that they understand it is ok to fail and not have all of the answers.
- wiz21c 5y ago"It is ok to fail". That's a survivor's point of view... I'd prefer if you'd spell it like "it's ok to not have the luck I had, there are other ways". (which is the point of the article I guess). But when you're the survivor, please, be very careful about the words you use. You are on the winning side of a very unfair lottery.
- ndr 5y agoThis reply seems to be replying to a "survivor" but the parent doesn't seem one. It's actually replying to a non-survivor who "failed" in parent's own words, or "did not have luck" in yours. Is it any more ok to talk this way for non-survivors?
- martincmartin 5y agoI take it as -- using the word "fail" to mean you don't finish your Ph.D. is the word a survivor (say, professor) would use. Even though grandparent didn't survive in academia, they're still using the terminology associated with that. Namely, that not becoming a professor is somehow failing.