What is it about us? We want to share our stories of success more than we want to talk about our failures. Today in a BYU campus devotional, Sister Worthen bravely shared a personal story about a failure in her life and how she responded to it. I loved it. She was real and her story was motivating. Professor Dahlin passed out an article this week in class about failure and he is making us each give an oral presentation about failure (using a personal example) during the semester. I think talking about failure is healthy Brene Brown taught me to lean into fear and failure, to not be afraid, but to see what I can learn from it. So back to this article, here are some highlights:
Failure can be an unfamiliar experience. So when it happens, it can be crippling.
You are hereby authorized to screw up, bomb or fail at one or more relationships, hookups, friendships, texts, exams, extracurriculars or any other choices associated with college...and still be a totally worthy, utterly excellent human.
Students seem unable to cope with basic setbacks. They are so fearful of failing that they will avoid taking risks at all. They are "failure deprived."
There is this kind of expectation on students at a lot of these schools to be succeeding on every level.
I think colleges are revamping what they believe it means to be well educated--that it's not about your ability to write a thesis statement, but to bounce back when you're told it doesn't measure up.
("On Campus, Failure Is on the Syllabus," by Jessica Bennett, New York Times, June 24, 2017)
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