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This is a Different spin than "embrace failure like silicon valley." It is about developing resilience. Recovering from failure can't be taught to kids protec

This is a Different spin than "embrace failure like silicon valley." It is about developing resilience. Recovering from failure can't be taught to kids protected from it. I recall a conversation post-graduation with a (the?) top student from my high school. He naturally assumed that every parent intervenes on their kids grades, and couldn't believe mine never did. Perhaps this is why the classmates who had the most professional success were the workaholics not quite at the valedictorian level who used bad grades as motivation. And to those complaining of cliches.... At least they didn't quote the marshmallow story.

libraryatnight 15y ago
Failure is also a pretty good indicator that you're trying to do things. That's not to say there aren't success stories where someone tried something, got lucky, and it went off from the very start. I just mean that, in my own personal experience, I wasted a lot of time waiting for something to happen. Once you actually start trying out ideas and trying to do something, you often also start encountering failures - big and small- and I try not to take it as a bad thing, but rather as a lesson in whatever it was I was doing and also as a personal reminder that "hey, I had an idea and I ran with it and worked at it. I tried to do something, let's try again or work harder at a different idea." I really identify with your top student comment, thanks for sharing.