What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.