this philosophy that doing something wrong or messing up is failure what does it mean to fail implying to a six year old a seven year old that doesn't memorize the words that you want him to memorize but they're a failure scars the child from what making mistakes yeah but life is full of making mistakes so therefore people do what they stopped trying out of fear of what making mistakes so from the moment you're born you're designed to not even try because any moment you try boom hammer