Why We Should Learn to Embrace and Celebrate our Failures

And teach our kids how to grow from them

Sophia Wisdom Writer
Nov 7 · 11 min read
Photo by Ian Kim on Unsplash

I dare to argue that the education system has failed to teach us how to learn from our failures and grow from them. The school system and our education, for the most part, conditioned us to avoid and fear the negative consequences of failures. Our bad grades in bold red, the disappointed look of our…

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