Model rockets
When I was in middle school, I enjoyed building and launching model rockets. Cardboard body tube, balsa fins, plastic nose cone, parachute--with fine strings and…
It’s too hard
I often tell my children, "Nothing worth doing is easy." I also say, "I like it because it's hard" (or fussy, demanding, challenging, technical, etc.).…
Failure and effort
I'm a perfectionist. That means I have an irrational fear of failure. Engage if you're relatively confident you can win--or, at the very least, not…
Persistence
I've watched a lot of soccer games. The shots taken to goals scored ratio is very lopsided. Yet, the players, somehow, think it's worth the…
Failure, the coach
High performers tend to hate failure. Some of them hate it so much, they will deliberately not engage if they feel there is a decent…
“Let’s call this one training”
A friend of mine told me a story about a time when a wise friend said, "Let's call this one training." The project they had…