The Fixated Mindset Changes the Meaning of Failure

The Martins worshipped their three-year-old Robert and always bragged about his feats. After he didn't get into the number one preschool in New York, they cooled toward him. He was someone who had discredited himself and shamed them. At the tender age of three, he was a failure. When I was a child, I too worried about meeting Robert's fate. Why would I risk turning from a success into a failure? Ernie Ells, the great golfer, worried about this, too.