Ed Catmull, co founder of Pixar
In a fear-based, failure-averse culture,
people will consciously or unconsciously avoid risk.
They will seek instead to repeat something safe
that’s been good enough in the past.
Their work will be derivative,
not innovative.
But if you can foster a
positive
understanding of failure,
the opposite will happen.”
Does this have something to do with whether or not
special needs children change?
Yes.
On the child’s part,
especially as they’ve been taught failure over and over
by being given tasks they can’t do
and by parents,
afraid of one more mistake,
sticking to something that barely works,
and not breathing into the possibility
of real miracles