Comments on: Overcoming Discouragement

By: teresa

teresa — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:12:58 +0000

Thanks. I was feeling discouraged as a teacher, having a not too successful day. My students went to lunch, I typed in the word discouraged and this came up. Synchronicity. Good thoughts here!

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By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:08:06 +0000

This is really a great article. I’m not exactly sure why I’m reading this now of all times, but I’m glad I did. I just dropped from BC math into AB and ranted for about an hour about how I let down all my past, present, and future teachers (math and otherwise), my friends, my family, all the random people I see in the halls every day, and above all, myself. This is exactly what I needed to read and I feel so much better right now. I guess I’m a little too hard on myself sometimes. So basically what I wanted to say is, thank you.

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By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:30:28 +0000

Scott,

One thing that a number of people fails to understand is that failure is an event and (hopefully) a lesson, not a person.

It isn’t important how many times you get knocked down (except perhaps, for the same reason). What’s important is how many times you get back up.

By: Roy

Roy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:51:40 +0000

I have been reading your articles for around 4-5 weeks now, and I must say that this one impressed me the most… The part about rewarding one’s attempts towards breaking a comfort zone is so amazing and effective… Great post dude…

By: kenneth daniels

kenneth daniels — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:47:40 +0000

I think we should always be pushing our comfort zone or we grow stagnet or go backwords with that like you growing seems to have peaks & valleys & you summed it up very well when we are disappointed & discouraged to do something right away to pull ourselves up out of the valley is very inportant

By: Annie

Annie — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:17:50 +0000

Thanks Scott.

Your article is very timely because I just received some news that discouraged me because I was expecting things to go as I had planned.

Your article helped me to see things differently & encouraged me.

Thank you for giving me an idea about how I might start getting out of my depression, & to keep fighting back.

You are very wise for such a young person … and a fellow Canuck, too.

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:05:17 +0000

Thanks Conrad!