Should Growing Up Be Therapeutic?

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Sunday, May 12. 2013

Should Growing Up Be Therapeutic?

Overprotective schools, overprotective parents. What is "therapeutic" about that?

Ultimately, the school of hard knocks is the best teacher. My failures and errors have taught me a lot, my successes have taught me little.

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Like the "Torture of the Soft Pillow" (and "The Comfy Chair"), lack of failure doesn't work.

#1 Sam L. on 2013-05-12 16:22 (Reply)

There are probably two ways to learn: from your own mistakes and from the mistakes of others. The first is more expensive but the lessons tend to stick better.

#2 JorgXMcKie on 2013-05-12 16:53 (Reply)

My failures and errors have taught me a lot, my successes have taught me little

Edison was asked a variant, re his thousand failed "first light bulb". The reporter asked him what new thing he had learned to make that first light bulb. Edison answered "That the first light bulb took a thousand steps".

#3 buddy larsen on 2013-05-12 17:54 (Reply)

This is also why fathers are important to properly raise children. The chief tactic of fathers is to give the misbehaving child a taste of how the world responds to that misbehavior.

#4 John on 2013-05-12 18:34 (Reply)

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Should Growing Up Be Therapeutic?