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The focus on constant testing, which grew out of the reasonable desire to measure and standardize children’s accomplishments, has intensified their fear of failure.
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309 |
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It is certainly important for children to learn to succeed, but it is just as important for them to learn not to fear failure. When children or adults fear failure, they fear risk. They can’t afford to be wrong.
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310 |
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It is a lesson for all ages: the importance of seeing mistakes not as personal failings to be denied or justified but as inevitable aspects of life that help us improve our work, make better decisions, grow, and grow up.
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310 |
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It is not technology that explains failure; it is less about technology, per se, and more about the leader’s failure to envision the future of their business as the world changes around them.
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071 |
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If cowardice is failure to do your duty, then courage is the decision to step up and do it. Answering the call. Overriding fear and seizing your destiny.
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085 |
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No one can guarantee safe passage in life, nothing precludes the possibility of failing or dying. But if you don’t go? Well, you ensure failure and suffer a different kind of death.
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110 |
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Honesty and integrity stand as cornerstones in science; only the most dense, disturbed, and corrupt young practitioners fail to grasp this point.
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078 |
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Be open to change and the positive or negative effects it has on us. Why? Because that is how we learn and grow. The changes we make give us success or failure.
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003 |
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You have to be open to the idea of trying new approaches, actually failing, being okay with failing, and trying again.
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005 |
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You cannot use the same old techniques again and again to achieve superior results. They eventually fail for many reasons…
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007 |
