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While a guest in Failureland, we encourage you to explore the science behind your brain and how it responds to being present here. These consultations and trainings will enable you to see the connections between your experiences, your development and your reactions. While here, you may also begin to see your future after you’ve determined you’re ready to leave Failureland.

Resources

The Three Great Untruths

Are the environment and the people around you setting you up for success or failure? Explore how college campuses are teaching students to think in ways that will, unfortunately, increase their likelihood of becoming anxious and even hurt as they move into adulthood.

CBS Mornings

The Anxious Generation

How have technology and your upbringing shaped how you go through the world? Watch this video and explore the influence of cell phones and social media, the loss of risk in contemporary childhood, and four norms that can give young people a chance to have a real “human” childhood.

The Daily Show

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Pulling Our Brains in a Good Direction

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so” - Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2)

We intuitively judge events and situations as “good” or “bad.” The value judgments we place on events and situations has a direct effect on our emotions. Learn more about the opportunities in life that give humans a choice to react that can steer their minds in dramatically different ways long term.

American Psychological Association

Risky Play and Children’s Safety: Balancing Priorities for Optimal Child Development

Obviously, injury prevention plays a key role in keeping children safe. But emerging research suggests that imposing too many restrictions on children’s outdoor play hinders their development. New research and strategies are emerging, seeking optimal strategies for keeping children “as safe as necessary,” not “as safe as possible.”

National Library of Medicine

Information Overload

How is it that human beings are living in the information age and yet life seems to make less sense than ever? In The Age of Magical Overthinking, the author says that our brains are overloaded with a constant stream of information that stokes our innate tendency to believe conspiracy theories, mysticism and other fears. Listen to learn more.

NPR - Fresh Air