Have you ever overreacted to a mistake, either yours or your child's? Most of us have. Some of us, more often than we'd like to admit. What causes us to do this? I find that it's usually a fear of failure, something that is a definite obstacle to learning.

Making mistakes is actually a very important part of the learning process. As William James once said, "Without mistakes, how would we know what we have to work on?" 

I've been in classroom settings, meeting rooms, and groups where people wer...
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