How Failure Makes Us Stronger

For the past couple of weeks, we have been discussing the brain and learning and I came across a related article from Reader's digest (Kita, 2009) that I found interesting.  The original magazine article was called How to Bounce Back from Anything and 5 Winners Teach Us How to Learn From Failure.  While the story about how five people overcame failure is interesting, what caught my attention was the sub-article about how the brain works when we encounter failure.  The sub-article How Failure Makes Us Stronger, http://www.rd.com/money/how-failure-makes-us-stronger/ (Kita, 2009) discusses a Stanford University study about two areas of the prefrontal cortex that are affected during the decision-making process.

On another interesting note, the article also contains a sub-article entitled How to Make Up Your Mind to Succeed, http://www.rd.com/money/how-to-make-up-your-mind-to-succeed/.  This article contains some great tips for motivating kids as well as adults.

Reference:
Kita, J. (2009, May). 5 Winners Teach Us How to Learn From Failure.  Reader's Disgest.  Retrieved from: http://www.rd.com/money/5-winners-teach-us-how-to-learn-from-failure/