Upon referencing failure, Keith Peters feels it can be a motivator to succeed. When detailing his own experience with failure in his video: Our Schools Should Teach Kids to Fail, Peters revealed that he had breezed through high school, earning high marks with little effort. Upon attending university however, assignment after assignment was met with failing grades. Because the author did not learn to experience or be inspired by failure, he threw in the towel and quit. Only after experiencing his own failure did he recognize the benefit that failure could bring. In relating the author's experience to one of my own, i'm reminded of my many years competing in highland dance. At the beginning, I was winning everything with minimum effort; I loved
