Geeze, I was trying to motivate her and here you are telling her it's ok to fail.
Thanks buddy.
Damn, Tru telling someone to buy in. This thread must be framed for posterity.
Seriously though, I get the intent, but it is ok to fail sometimes.
Self commitment to doing the work and thus proving you are superior to most is not the same as "buying in". I agree it is sometimes, not only OK to fail but in rare instances actually the right way to go.
I would do more school now if I could, I hated it when I was young and dropped out of high school. Changed my mind somewhere along the line. (basically when I graduated Distinguished Graduate in my advanced military Training and earned a rank in the process). Those guys were from all over the nation and I beat most of them, and seriously the top guys cheated I know this as a fact.
I never had any option of actually going to university though, poor parents, no options. Addiction and drug use issues after separation.
Yet I managed to take many courses at the local community college and have aced them all. In my microcomputer programing course I did five different versions of the most difficult project of the semester. Each one used a completely different tactic to achieve the exact same goal. On the final project which every one warned us was the most difficult, everyone in the class handed in code that covered two full pages or more.
Mine was half a page.
The teacher asked if he could use it as an example for future classes, I said sure. It did exactly what it had to do with the fewest amount of lines of code possible. ( We were using 8088 hardware boards with manual input of code) The most precise example of the required code the instructor had ever seen.
It got me a referral for a job with a telecom outfit that I still work with. People actually came to me after that to offer me jobs!
If it's being paid for you, you should take full advantage of the situation and do your best to understand the info or there is really no reason to be there.