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    Overcoming Your Fear of Failure: A Portion from Life After Art
    Overcoming Your Fear of Failure: A Portion from Life After Art
    Overcoming Your Fear of Failure: A Portion from Life After Art
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    Overcoming Your Fear of Failure: A Portion from Life After Art

    By Matt Appling

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    Why is it so easy to fail at some things and so difficult to face failure at others?

    As an art teacher, Matt Appling has seen his students struggle with the idea of failing at an art project, but at the same time most 3rd graders have been willing enough to fail at a round of Super Mario Bros for decades! Even more interestingly, his youngest students (he teaches Kindergarten through 8th grade) seem much more willing to fail that the older ones. What’s happening to us as we grow up?

    As we grow older, we become impaired by some of the lessons we “learn.” Failure is bad. Success is good. I should try not to fail and if failure seems like a likely option, I should not do that thing.

    But this fear of failure can paralyze us and keep some of the best successes from happening. This short piece, taken from Matt’s book, Life after Art, will remind you of the value of failing that you somehow knew when you were younger—and will help you recapture that freedom once again.

    Moody Collective Portions are short pieces of content taken from our full-length books. Our goal is to introduce our readers to a complete idea in a brief, concise, and inexpensive format. Most portions will take about 20 minutes to read.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateDec 16, 2013
    ISBN9780802491343
    Overcoming Your Fear of Failure: A Portion from Life After Art

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      Overcoming Your Fear of Failure - Matt Appling

      The following content is taken from Life after Art, by Matt Appling. If you own the full book already, you can find this section in chapter five.

      If you are interested in hearing more from the team that facilitated this adapted content, visit moodycollective.com.

      Overcoming Your Fear of Failure

      What Girls Want

      In high school, I discovered there was one commodity I desired above all else: the attention of girls. And I learned that to get girls, a guy has to have a skill. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills. And since I did not have nunchaku skills or bow hunting skills or computer hacking skills, there was really only one skill I could use to compete for female attention: art.

      Over the course of high school, I carefully developed this little shtick of giving paintings to girls. Cheap canvas, no frame, just the best painting of a happy sunset or some trees that a high school girl could get. I even wrapped up the paintings in brown grocery bag paper and twine, just to lend an element of surprise. Once I gave one away, it was easy. Other girls heard that some less-deserving classmate had one of my paintings in her bedroom, and they were asking me, twirling their hair in

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