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Should people be taught how to deal with failure at work in school?

For

Learning resilience early helps in adult life.

Against

School should focus on knowledge, not workplace emotions.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • Someone has to teach people that failure is part of how we learn and not an end state. It's part of the journey.
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  • failure is a stop on the way not a sign to get off the train
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Against

  • Any time someone says “we should teach kids x in school” my question is always “ok, but what do you cut?”
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  • Resilience comes from within. I don’t think it can really be taught.
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