What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, i….

People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer..

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off..

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything..

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?..

The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emot….

Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more l….

If we don't give kids the opportunity to fail when they're growing up, and to fail productively, to fail creatively, that they're going to get out th….