Comments about ‘John Florez: Daring to risk and learning to fail’

I have to sit through another group of speeches and one line summaries of students' future plans today. And many of them will want to take time off or travel or live in france or japan. Who's going to pay for that? I know they don't get the opportunity to fail much anymore in school, but when I hear all these things I suspect they are going to get plenty year one out of school.

"Learning to fail requires motivation to pursue your dreams and deepest convictions about the things you love, your loyalties and your values. That should be what guides one's life, not material things or what others may think about you. " Noble sentiments indeed. But in today's United States as Florez should know, health care access isn the tail that wags the dog. Don't take a chance to do something interesting if it endangers your health coeverage. What a crappy system we have!

Any successful person will tell you that they learned much from their failures but that they kept trying. If you insulate people from their failures you have not helped them, you have actually deprived them from what would have been their most productive learning moments. Its called tough love! Our next President needs to teach this concept to our nation! Without it, we will never be a great country again! Liberals get “compassion” confused with achievement and where and how personal achievements come from because they do not understand the purpose of failure!