Ron Kaiser: A B is Not a Fail
Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser
Dr. Ron Kaiser
5.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
More often than not, parents encourage their children in school by telling them that A is the ideal grade, and give them the wrong impression that not getting it means they failed. This approach affects a child later in life, and it manifests by not having the courage to try different things if they don’t feel the result will be 100% successful.
Listen to Episode 15 of Rejuvenaging to learn how all kinds of activities can only be achieved when you try and how waiting for an A to occur, limits your potential for success.
In this episode, you will learn:
- The difference between a fixed and a growth mindset. (03:57)
- How growing up with the notion that not getting an A means failure, affects a child’s adult life. (04:58)
- The either/or thinkers. (07:52)
Rejuvenaging Resources:
Book: Dr. Ron Kaiser - Rejuvenaging: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser. |
| 0:24.0 | This is the podcast designed to help you lead your life enthusiastically today and |
| 0:29.9 | tomorrow and every other day of your life. I am your host, Ron Kaiser. I am a |
| 0:36.5 | licensed psychologist, a positive health psychologist, and author of the best |
| 0:42.4 | selling and award-winning book Rejuvenaging, The Art and Science of Growing |
| 0:47.7 | Older with Enthusiastum. As most of you listeners know, most of our podcasts are |
| 0:55.3 | devoted to bringing you interesting and informative guests who can help you in |
| 1:02.2 | various ways to lead your life enthusiastically, regardless of where you are in |
| 1:07.4 | the lifespan. But about once a month or so, I go solo and provide a topic of |
| 1:14.6 | hopefully of interest that ties in with my interest in Rejuvenaging, |
| 1:20.2 | Positive Psychology, and the goals of the mental health gym, which happens to be |
| 1:26.2 | the name of my website. I hope that you will find these podcasts entertaining, |
| 1:33.4 | informative, and encouraging of action taking. And one of those actions I hope you'll |
| 1:40.6 | do will be to subscribe to the podcast and to rate it and provide any feedback |
| 1:46.9 | that can be helpful to me. Okay, well today is one of those solo topics and I |
| 1:55.3 | call it, there's a difference between a bee and a fail. Let me tell you a little |
| 2:02.6 | bit about how I got to discussing this or arriving at this concept. Many years |
| 2:09.0 | ago when I was a young psychologist and doing a fair amount of psychological |
| 2:15.9 | testing, I remember an instance where while giving an individual mental test, a |
| 2:23.0 | youngster didn't make a real effort at guessing the answer. The test did permit |
| 2:32.1 | me to provide encouragement, you know, no clues, but encouragement. And as I did |
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