Meeting the Challenge
Submitted by Boys and Schools Blog
You can learn as much from failure as you can from success–so long as you have the right guidance and self-discipline. At least, that’s what my husband, my parents, and a fair proportion of the self-help section at Borders tell me. And while I’m not the biggest fan of zippy summaries of life’s wisdom, I can’t quarrel with this one. Failure can be a great teacher–it’s what shows us how to improve, how to be disciplined, how to meet challenges, and how to pick ourselves up and try again. So this week’s video is meant to emphasize the value of using challenges to motivate boys. We shouldn’t hold back out of fear of how failing to meet these challenges might affect young men–with the right guidance, they can learn all the positive lessons of, “if at first you don’t succeed,” along with the incredible accomplishment that comes with success after trying again.
