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Let Your Kids Fail
… Ann S. Masten, a developmental psychologist, describes resilience as “ordinary magic,” the result of normal developmental processes rather than extraordinary personal qualities. But those processes require what she calls “adaptive systems,” one of the
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Letting Kids Fail Is Crucial
When my older son Jack was in high school, he accepted a summer job selling solar panels door-to-door. My first reaction was to tell him not to do it. I felt protective—afraid of the rejection he
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Failure Is an Art and How to Do It, or Avoid It, Like a Champion
Failure as a noun means lack of success, omission of required action, or the collapse of a business. It can be embarrassing and painful to experience. Most will do anything to avoid failure—nobody wants to
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Student Notebook: The Seven Sins of Graduate School
Graduate student Edward Pashkov discusses seven paradigmatic sins that many beginner graduate students commit—and suggests how to learn from them.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on antibias interventions, a databank to improve science, aging and emotion regulation, comparisons between interventions, failure, and more.
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The Learning Opportunities Hiding in Our Failures
Successes enjoy more attention than failures. We celebrate stories of triumph, and pore over them to extract the reasons why things went so well. Industries package the lessons and share them as tips for ‘best
