You learn from Failure
As a teacher it breaks my heart that we have raised a generation of kids that think they always deserve an A for just trying. We have a raised a generation of kids that live above their means.
These two beliefs are going to bring the country down.
I no longer can even wrap my mind around the astronomical numbers the government has spent and is proposing to spend to 'bail' everyone out.
Hello, it is time to fail. Start over. Figure out how to fix it, take the lumps while fixing it and climb back to the top. You learn from failure. You do not learn if mom & dad 'bail' you out and we will not learn if the government 'bails' us out. I am sorry, I know it sounds harsh but these companies need to go bankrupt. Americans need to work for a living.
Americans need to live within in their means.
I am saddened by what is happening and I don't believe it is going to get better, only worse. The younger generation cannot accept failure, responsibility or hard work. Wake up, because there is always another country ready to 'jump' in and take the top.
Americans need to look at history. All great Nations have fallen. When you refuse to accept your weakness and not learn from your mistakes, you are ripe for a fall from within.
To the younger generation, please stop your reckless behavior. Stop living pay check to pay check. Actually, stop living beyond your pay checks. Get your education or a training! Learn your trade. Start at the bottom. Quit insisting your are entitled to start at the top!
Don't be afraid to fail. Go out and try, fail and learn from your failure. Stop hiding behind mom & dad and the government.
I apologize for our overzealous parenting. It is time to toughen up. It is time to save this country ourselves!
These two beliefs are going to bring the country down.
I no longer can even wrap my mind around the astronomical numbers the government has spent and is proposing to spend to 'bail' everyone out.
Hello, it is time to fail. Start over. Figure out how to fix it, take the lumps while fixing it and climb back to the top. You learn from failure. You do not learn if mom & dad 'bail' you out and we will not learn if the government 'bails' us out. I am sorry, I know it sounds harsh but these companies need to go bankrupt. Americans need to work for a living.
Americans need to live within in their means.
I am saddened by what is happening and I don't believe it is going to get better, only worse. The younger generation cannot accept failure, responsibility or hard work. Wake up, because there is always another country ready to 'jump' in and take the top.
Americans need to look at history. All great Nations have fallen. When you refuse to accept your weakness and not learn from your mistakes, you are ripe for a fall from within.
To the younger generation, please stop your reckless behavior. Stop living pay check to pay check. Actually, stop living beyond your pay checks. Get your education or a training! Learn your trade. Start at the bottom. Quit insisting your are entitled to start at the top!
Don't be afraid to fail. Go out and try, fail and learn from your failure. Stop hiding behind mom & dad and the government.
I apologize for our overzealous parenting. It is time to toughen up. It is time to save this country ourselves!
Labels: Failure, government bailout, Liberals, living beyond your means
posted by Lucy at
3:25 PM
3 Comments:
Crisis is oportunity for government and the bail out is really a buy in. The government is going to grow and gain unprecedented control in our lives because Paulson and some others ramped the housing crisis and caused panic over the failing economy. Ups and downs in the market are a natural part of the market but somehow, we've been fooled into thinking that it can be manipulated and we should never have to suffer any down turn.
I'm am so sick of hearing this downturn compared to the great depression when we are no where near that level of suffering. It is as if the media and the government were working together to create this crisis and thereby create the oportunity to introduce socialism on a much larger scale than has ever been known in America. Can't we see that none of the programs FDR initiated during the depression function the way they should?
I look to God when things get tough but I think more Americans today look to the government. We, as a people, are fat, spoiled, and weak. Maybe hard times will build into us the character necessary to form a great country.
As an employer, I have many young employees who do not want to work. Generally speaking, it is a rare employee under the age of 30 who is willing to put in the hard work, start from the bottom, and learn the job.
I hate to add to it that I am 31 and can be put into that group...EXCEPT that I did work from the bottom, got educated, learned from my superiors at work, and am successful because of it.
It's rare to see someone who wants to work their way up. Nineteen year olds come in and want to be leads and they have no experience. When you suggest that there is an assistant position, they walk away from the job.
When you talk to them about how to improve, there is always an excuse and no willingness to just say, "okay, I was wrong, how can I make it better? How can I improve my work?"
I have actually had a parent of an employee call me and talk to me about her 23 year old daughter's work habits; making excuses why she couldn't get to work on time, how she just keeps getting a cold and can't come in to work, etc...
Unfortunatley, this is the rule, not the exception. There is a significant generation gap in work ethics and we are not doing our children any good when we don't hold them accountable, fix their problems for them, keep the score out of the game, and allow them to fail and still get praise.
If you don't do an A quality work, you don't deserve an A in the class. You don't get to graduate just because you are an 18 year old senior; you get to graduate because you succeeded in all your classes.
This bail out problem is only going to get worse because we aren't allowing people to fail. Sometimes businesses fail and you have to know when to walk away or change...live with the consequences of your actions.
Without the freedom to fail you can not have the freedom to succeed. That story about the mom calling in for the 23 year old worker is alarming. I know one worker (in highschool) who complained to her boss about a fellow employee who made more money than here. The boss' reply: 'That employee has a Master's degre. You don't have a diploma yet.' Yikes!
Good post!
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