[miccah]

Behind every success is countless failures.

I think taking the negative connotation out of "failure" will remove any mental barriers for all creative subjects.

As the post says, someone who has not failed has not learned. I wish school systems were more supportive of this in the classrooms.

[mqsley]

I will teach my kids to judge based on successes and to be proud of failures. By writing about my failures I feel proud to own them.

[mandelbrotwurst]

How would/should schools do this?

[cafard]

In Excellence Without a Soul, Harry Lewis, sometime dean of Harvard College, quotes a head of house, scholarly and not at all athletic as saying that athletes add a great deal to the school: They are the only people who know how to lose.

[mqsley]

I'm sure there are ways to do this.

[mandelbrotwurst]

I'm not saying there aren't, I'm curious what some of them might be!