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thenewgreen · 4262 days ago · link · · parent · post: You Can Do Anything: Must Every Kids' Movie Reinforce the Cult of Self-Esteem?

It is strange that effort is so under-appreciated when it is the one common factor in success. Kids should learn how to endure boredom, rejection, and failure. You can not get very far in life without the tools to do so. If you shelter your child from these experiences, then they will be helpless in the face of them. I see this often with people starting up a business. There are those that put their blood, sweat and tears in to it and eek by for several years before starting to slowly make it by and eventually do well. Then there are those that think that simply by opening their doors, they've won the game. -They don't last long.

My grandfather always says, "thank goodness for shitty competition." Work hard in this current generation and you'll have a leg up, it seems nobody else will want to, there will be lots of "shitty competition."

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