Can I share how I deal with this subject in my Professor Fiddlesticks work?
I do a little made-up funny story, after earlier telling the audience that devilsticks were invented in China as a weapon, when I’ve got my first bunch of children out at the front trying to do them, and always failing, dropping them. I explain that although in our Western culture we laugh at people who drop the juggling equipment, over in China there’s a saying that ‘dropping is learning’, and students and learners who drop the stick are hailed as ‘learning very quickly’ and this is a good thing.
So exactly the same very positive message as you write here, with failure being an opportunity to try new ways of doing something, to learn and eventually succeed. A really lovely approach. Thank you.