Are We Hardwired to Succeed?
From birth until your bones can no longer bear the weight of yourself, it seems that we have been taught that failure not only is bad, it's actually the worst thing ever: not only sets you back, but prevents you from doing what you have to do and what you want to do, and is, in the end, a source of humiliation. It's curious that even self-created goals that other people know about can be a predictor of humiliation in case of failure. Even if there are others around you about who you don't really care, depending on your personallity, there's a chance you will. Such will make you perceive such humiliation as something that you'll have to carry unrelentlessly. Where's the problem here? Is it part of our nature to avoid failure in order to achieve set goals, or was it (and pardon the cliché) society that throughout all the history and the years that created this unchanging need to succeed and to shun failure in any way or form? In schools, universities, and mo