Failure: a step to success
and cultivating Grit everyday …
In our class yesterday, we were watching a TED Talk — Angela Duckworth: Grit — what it means, how important it is in our day to day life. Grit is about passion and perseverance. It’s about knowing that we are here for the long term, not for the short-term or for the instant gratification, but to make sure that our path forward is set up for success.
And how we can learn to embrace failure with a growth mindset. One of my students shared an NBA player’s response on what failure means for him. Very well articulated that we need to trust the process. And that there is no failure in sports and I would like to believe that is true for anything and everything we put our heart and mind to do.
That’s the beauty of failure. We are afraid. We’re not sure what it will mean for us, but when we fall down, we get up back again.. and again.. always..
