“We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.” IfsNeedsFeelsTryingChildrenFailingMovementProtectSkillsOur ChildrenFeel GoodPersistenceAnxious Author:Martin Seligman
“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.” PeopleIfsInspirationalTryingFirstsProblemChallengesSimpleSolutionsComplexesCome UpSolvePersistenceKeep GoingLayersElegantOnionsBest JobReal JobsSimple SolutionsElegant SolutionsPeeling An Onion Author:Steve Jobs