Can you Fail

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I know from first hand experiences that kids are not allowed to fail in any way. They cannot fail at school ever even when they are playing a game there will always be a tie because then everyone is a winner. The kids in the generation below mine are very much protected from failure and do not know how to fail or what it failure is. I think that they are very much pressured not to fail in many thing. Now how you have to be the best in your class as a kindergarten, to be the smartest in school or the best at sports. If you are not then you are not good enough. I do not think there is a safe space to fail for kids or they might not feel comfortable with failing in front of others. I think if you do not know how to fail then how will you learn to fail from your mistakes. That no one is perfect and that everyone on is going to fail at something as easy as a test because you did not study. If you think you cannot fail and if you do fail then you will just crumble. How can you do anything if you are the only thinking about failing?  If you cannot fail I do not think that you will get very far in life.  You can learn the most from things you have failed at like in the article The Myth of ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ it says “But what we don’t do is intentionally look for ways that we’re failing and hammer away at those flaws until they’re gone, then search for more ways we’re messing up.” That when you see what you have failed at then you will be able to learn that much more from your failures in life.  

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/25/the-myth-of-practice-makes-perfect/#ixzz2hYJFVhrM