What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

- Paul Tough

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

- Paul Tough

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

- Paul Tough

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…

- Paul Tough

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…

- Paul Tough

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…

- Paul Tough

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

- Paul Tough

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…

- Paul Tough