Tags: #for-when-we-have-kids Here's something that occasionally happened when I was a kid. I would get excited to do something, or try something, or perform something. And my father would say something like "be sure you can do it". In the case where I had already thought I could do it, I now doubted myself. And in the case where I was uncertain about it but had worked up the courage to try, I now no longer wanted to try. If I ever have my own children, I want to do my best to not allow my adult anxieties and lack of imagination instill this pervasive sense of doubt in my children. I don't want them to doubt themselves because of my lack of imagination. Because I don't want to see them fail. I always want to encourage them. If they fail, so what? It's an opportunity for them to learn from it. Related: [[My final boss is the blank page]]