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Building Character & failure

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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.

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Build a Life, Not a Resume | Street Philosophy with Jay Shetty

Motivational philosopher Jay Shetty explains how failure may not build resumes, but builds character and helps us learn to adapt to change.

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The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s...

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FindCenterFailure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame.

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What If the Secret to Success Is Failure?

We all know—on some level, at least—that what kids need more than anything is a little hardship: some challenge, some deprivation that they can overcome, even if just to prove to themselves that they can.

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Education Speaker Paul Tough: You Can’t Teach Grit. But You Can Make Kids Act Gritty.

Paul Tough, author of “Helping Children Succeed,” outlines the four essential messages students need to receive in the classroom in order to become more gritty, optimistic, and resilient people.

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FindCenterWhen you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

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FindCenterThat’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

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FindCenterBad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us.

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FindCenterWrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.

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