Failing Better

I got a call a couple of weeks ago from a young journalist (who is now probably put off motherhood for life given what was going on in the background and my seeming inability to string a sentence together – why oh why didn’t I let the answering service kick in?) seeking my views on the psychology of young women and failure. She told me about a brilliant teacher at an all girls school in Wimbledon who’d recently run an experiment to help her young minds cope with failure;... Read More