quote:On the other hand, when I lived in Taiwan every so often you'd hear a blurb on the news about a student who jumped off a building because of school stress.
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Whereas I meant it in reference to:
quote:I think from when I was little it was understood that if you fail in school, you fail in life, and even now I maintain high grades out of habit, because I can't bear the thought of anything else.
And the like.
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quote:I think from when I was little it was understood that if you fail in school, you fail in life
Unfortunate but true... the sooner this dogma is abolished, the better.
Succeeding at any cost is all that seems to matter in today's society. Kids are under an extreme amount of pressure to perform. Basically they aren't even allowed to have a childhood.
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My parents were so unaccepting of failure, or even mistakes, that it hinders me to this day... I became, for a long time, afraid to do new things because I might screw up. I developed a phobia of authority figures.
A while back, during a parental disagreement, my dad asked me "Why don't you come to us with your problems?" And I finally had the courage to respond: "Because you always BIT MY ASS OFF when I made a mistake!"
(God, if I EVER hear the 'if you don't work with your brain, you'll work with your back' lecture again, I'll STRANGLE someone)
It's still there. It's been almost impossible for me to speak to my bosses about mistakes I've made, because I'm always afraid they'll fire me for the slightest thing. So I have panic attacks instead, until the situations get resolved. I almost always make it worse than it needed to be.
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Well, First of Two gets the prize, I did mean the drop out bit. But feel free to apply it to, well, pretty much anything really...
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