Failure Makes You Stronger and More Resilient
Spoiled adolescents are examples of individuals who have not been allowed the benefit of failing. In their view of the world, if they complain or act up enough, they will almost always get what they want. If they are never released from this mindset, the real world will be a horribly rude awakening for them.
Failure is something that one cannot avoid in life. In fact, we are hard-wired to learn by trial and error, which makes failure built into how we learn and grow. People who learn to cope with this are more likely to try new things and aim for more difficult goals without worrying about the ego-damaging nature of failure. Salesman cannot achieve stellar sales records without first learning to handle failure. A job hunter who gets discouraged after one bad interview will find it immensely difficult to land a job, especially in the 2010 job market.