The Gift of Failure How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

Failure is not the opposite of success. It is a necessary part of the journey towards it.

I wanted to write this book exposing to people like, what's your excuse?

Don't do what you dream about. Do what you're good at.

Do what you love after you do what you're good at. Then you'll love it even more because there won't be stress of feeding your kids.

Figure out which one you can't live without.

There's a book I'll give you in there I went, have you read Jessica Lahey's 'The Gift of Failure'? I don't think so. Oh, it's incredible. It's a parody I know, it's...it's this idea of like you never want your kids to be embarrassed or fail or so you're like oh sorry I'm running across town because you forgot your lunch or like you reminded them 50 times and now you're doing their science fair project...

I love her book The Gift of Failure, How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed.

I carry the gift of failure in my bookstore here, The Painted Porch in Vashom, Texas because it's great.

You know, obviously the title and the concept of my book, this idea of the obstacle being the way, sort of, in a sense is saying the exact same thing that your book is saying although it yours is geared much more towards parenting than my parenting was very far from my mind when I was writing that book at 25 or 26.

But this idea of failure being a gift that there's good that can come out of mistakes, falling short, things not going the way that you would like them to go to me seems like a very stoic idea.