Children need to do more than learn new skills

Page 139. Children need to do more than learn new skills. The theory of capability suggest they need to be challenged. They need to solve hard problems. They need to develop values. When you find yourself providing more and more experiences that are not giving children opportunity to be deeply engaged, you are not you are not equipping them with the processes they need to succeed in the future.

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · How will you measure your life? By Clayon M. Christensen

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The brain behaves like a muscle: it is the struggle to master a hard new thing that strengthens it, which is why grit — passion and perseverance held over the long haul — does what raw talent cannot; real growth, in body or mind, requires pushing past your comfort zone, and the only way off a plateau is to challenge yourself anew. Children learn this earliest, building their self-worth in exactly one way — by being allowed to attempt hard things and discover they can. Keep, if you like, the tidy four-C map of the hardy soul: control over what you can affect, commitment to what matters, challenge embraced rather than fled, and community to hold you. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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