Despite the contemporary view that leaders learn more from failure than from success, no one tries to make a habit of failing. Failing is painful and can have significant consequences for future opportunities and decisions.
In analogy, the principle in the article can be explained by considering a growing family. Parents and educators ought to give children enough rope for them to practice on on exercising their own judgments and inevitably making mistakes from where they will gain experience as they are growing. At those early years, the risks attached to their learning experiences have acceptable adverse consequences. These children when they reach their teens have by then accumulated an adequate amount of experiences from practicing at exercising judgments -- and at a much safer "cheaper" cost. Parents that keep a very tight rope on children (to "protect" them from making mistakes) inflict a more serious damage on their safer learning opportunities and by precluding them to exercise their own judgment. By the time these tight-rope children begin to assert their independence as teenagers and begin to exercise their judgments, their inevitable mistakes will have severely more dangerous consequences (i.e., pregnancy, addiction to name a couple.)
If you enjoyed reading this entry, you may appreciate the short discussion we hosted to unpack the ideas here:
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In analogy, the principle in the article can be explained by considering a growing family. Parents and educators ought to give children enough rope for them to practice on on exercising their own judgments and inevitably making mistakes from where they will gain experience as they are growing. At those early years, the risks attached to their learning experiences have acceptable adverse consequences. These children when they reach their teens have by then accumulated an adequate amount of experiences from practicing at exercising judgments -- and at a much safer "cheaper" cost. Parents that keep a very tight rope on children (to "protect" them from making mistakes) inflict a more serious damage on their safer learning opportunities and by precluding them to exercise their own judgment. By the time these tight-rope children begin to assert their independence as teenagers and begin to exercise their judgments, their inevitable mistakes will have severely more dangerous consequences (i.e., pregnancy, addiction to name a couple.)