Jessica Lahey On The Gift of Failure

The Rich Roll Podcast · Apr 3, 2017 · 1h 54m

We all want what's best for our kids.

So we roll up our sleeves and insert ourselves in their education, pitching in on homework and managing school projects. We stimulate them with an endless revolving door of activities. We do what we can to foster good grades, college application-worthy experiences and self-esteem. Along the way, we celebrate victories as if they were our own. And swoop in to protect when things go south.

The instinct is laudable: set up our children for success, by any means necessary.

But what if we have it all wrong? What if all this hyper-competitive, overly-protective…