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Avoiding failure by playing it safe may limit opportunities for learning and growth.
Whether moving away is a good idea depends as much on a young person’s aspirations as it does on their resources. Staying put – or moving back – does not necessarily mean personal failure.
The business world shows that making mistakes can build resilience and prime you to look for better opportunities.
What can you do when you feel like a failure for giving up on a dream?
Not everyone succeeds straight away and how you deal with failure can really make or break your career.
Long COVID can rob young people of an active life and cast future plans into doubt. But social support can help.
Canadian skating rinks are diverse meeting and mingling places and seem to nurture respect, support and sociability, a new study stays.
Between 23% and 52% of education, civil engineering, nursing and commerce students failed a unit of their degree. Those who failed a subject were four times more likely to drop out of their course.
Canadian technology start-ups that incorporate an approach that learns from failure tend to perform and innovate with greater success than start-ups that seek to assign blame.
Here are some key factors of success to consider for western government taking on large projects – following these will help prevent the routine fails we often see.
A psychologist explains how to improve your ability to respond to challenges.
An inexperienced senior executive may defer to inappropriate sources for advice, treating technical disagreements as personality conflicts or interference.
Encouraging and supporting failure can make your child more resilient, better able to cope and help them grow.
According to new research, the way you respond could determine whether or not you’ll repeat the same mistake in the future.
Australia is still far too ‘arms-length’ from the process of starting and growing companies.
Films about incompetent, inspirational flops are popular at present. These strange heroes embody the mantra of our self-help culture: never give up and embrace willpower over talent.
Universities largely fail to acknowledge the way their modes of teaching and learning are culturally, socially and politically embedded. Can this be fixed?
The subprime crisis and the subsequent failure of Lehman Brothers came as such a shock – and the repercussions were so severe that when the time came to mount a response, policy makers were as surprised…
A research centre in the UK recently found that lavishing praise on students, particularly low-attaining students, may be counter-productive. By providing a no-fail, no-consequences environment in which…
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