Why failure is important…

[SportyMum79]

Failure is rarely something people seek out because it’s uncomfortable and reminds us of our shortcomings, whether of personal goals or external expectations. However, avoiding failure would mean avoiding sports.

Failure is part of how babies develop neural networks. They might wave their arm at the dangly cot toy 50 times but the time they make contact they learn spatial awareness.

There are a million and one ways children ‘fail’ and learn before they are introduced to sport. What schools should do is concentrate on practice and learning skills rather than always focussing on the end result.

This is why sport is a poor analogy for most life lessons, even though it gets trotted out as the opposite.

I don't see not winning in sports as a failure.

I only recently explained to DC that if 20 people enter a race, how many are realistically going to win?
Taking part, having fun and being a team member is far more important than that 1 spot available at the very top.

You haven't really said why failure is important?

Sport is one way to learn to fail, but it isn't the only way.

I'm sure failure (or not winning) can in many cases help build resilience. A Mr Amorim is therefore helping a lot of people build resilience, as well as pleasing a lot of others.