Resilience Why we shouldn't be discouraged by Robert Reich
'I often tell my students that if they strive to achieve full and meaningful lives they should expect failures and disappointments. We learn to walk by falling down again and again. We learn to ride a bicycle by crashing into things. We learn to make good friends by being disappointed in friendship. Failure and disappointment are necessary prerequisites to growth.
The real test of character comes after failures and disappointments. It is resilience — how easily you take failures, what you learn from them, how you bounce back.
This is a hard lesson to learn for high-achievers who are used to jumping over every hoop put in front of them. It’s also a hard lesson for people who haven’t had all the support and love they might have needed when growing up. In fact, it’s a hard lesson for almost everyone in a culture such as ours that worships success and is embarrassed by failure, and is inherently impatient.
. . . we have gone through a few very difficult years — . . .
But we now find ourselves in a disorienting limbo. There is no clearly-demarcated “behind us.” . . .
And Biden and the Democrats have been unable to achieve the scale of changes many of us wanted and expected.
If you’re not at least a bit disappointed, you’re not human. To some of you, it feels like America is failing.
. . . I’ve learned a few things in my half-century in and around politics, and my many years teaching young people. One is that things often look worse than they really are. The media (including social media) sells subscriptions and advertising with stories that generate anger and disappointment. The same goes for the views of pundits and commentators: Pessimists always appear wiser than optimists.'>>>
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