OPINION: 'As a new year looms, we parents should remember that in many endeavors, there’s no shame in a B, whether for our kids or ourselves.'
probes whether mental exercise, including learning new things — combined with physical exertion, diet, and socializing — may stall Alzheimer’s march. The uncaged tiger of dementia stalks my late father’s family, having mauled him and his mother, so the potential vaccine of new learning resonates personally.
My fencing instructor would not have appreciated my contentment with mediocrity at his sport. If only he’d met my high school physics teacher, who, at the end of one semester, divulged my final grade as I passed him en route to lunch. Certain I’d barely survived with a humiliating D — or worse, hadn’t survived at all — I recall the elation at hearing I’d gotten a B.
My teacher seemed fine with the grade as well. As a new year looms, we parents should remember that in many endeavors, there’s no shame in a B, whether for our kids or ourselves.the ancient Greek definition of happiness as"the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.” That dictum should guide our efforts in life’s most important areas. But not every exertion in life is equally important.
Nor is excellence the same thing as perfection, an insight taught in an unlikely setting that I still recall after 37 years. The 1985 Oscars paid memorableto films revered as classics, yet which had lost out for Best Picture. Irene Cara, recently and sadly deceased, imbued a usually overstuffed ritual for celebrity-gazers with unaccustomed profundity, and belted out a lesson that’s worth repeating for the perfectionists among us: “Losers can be winners after all.
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