In You Are Awesome, Neil Pasricha works to encourage readers to believe in themselves while also highlighting how the lives we live today has caused us to loose the resilience of former generations.
Not many of us have been through famines or wars or, let’s be honest, any form of true scarcity. We have it all. And the side effect is that we no longer have the tools to handle failure or even perceive failure. These days when we fall we just lie on the sidewalk crying. We are turning into an army of porcelain dolls. – XVIII
According to Pasricha, failure is good because it teaches us to deal with hard things. This is specifically good for children, who will turn into porcelain dolls if their parents hold their hands all the time ensuring that all obstacles are swept away. If you do take all obstacles away from the lives of your children, they will never encounter small failures with the support of parents close by. Then when they encounter failures later in life, they’ll have no backbone to stand up and keep going.
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