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Summary Of Today's Fail Safe Student

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In the expert from “Today’s fail-safe students”, Scott Carlson addresses a very real issue. Some students have not been exposed to failure, and while that doesn’t sound at all life threatening, it is still something that can have a significant effect. I believe it is important that students experience failure while they are young, the world only gets tougher. Being sheltered by parents from failure won’t last forever. If it happens all throughout their teenage years, once they grow up, the impact of failure might take a bigger toll on them than it would have if they experienced it when they were younger. Experiencing failure might feel like the biggest setback to some people. I know sometimes struggle to pick myself back up. However, it can be necessary to achieving success. With failure, it is easy to realize what you …show more content…

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