Chris Larsen argues parents should normalize failure by regularly discussing both wins and losses with their kids. He uses sports and investing to show that losing is common at higher levels, and frames failure as learning. Help your children fail forward.
Every evening at the dinner table, we ask our kids, you know, what was one success, but what was one failure? So they normalize failure. They want their kids to talk about failure. So we started doing that, you know, and, you know, when they were young, we called them roses and thorns, right? Like, what was something good? What was something, you know, that happened? And now as my sons, as we were talking about, we have, we have a couple sports in common with our, with our kids. You know, that's what we always say. It's like, well, hey, yeah, you lost the game. But, like, what did you. Like, did you play your best? What did you learn? You know, that player was better than you, you know, what did you take from it? And that's one of the things my older son, as he gets to a higher level, it's like, hey, you know, you've. You're going to lose a lot, you know, so you've got to. You've got to figure out, okay, you've got to embrace business ownership. You're going to lose a lot. Yeah. And, you know, and you know, yeah, bike racing, investing in general, like, stocks, everything, right. There's a lot of losses there. So if you're a parent, especially out there, make sure you talk about failure with your kids and you make it okay, and you help them fail forward.
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