My best friend and I signed up for pottery classes together thinking it would be fun, but it's bringing up all this stuff about how we handle failure and frustration differently, and I'm realizing we've never actually learned anything challenging together before. She gets discouraged easily and I get obsessive, and we're not sure how to be supportive when our coping mechanisms are so different.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two friends attempting to learn together are confronting fundamental differences in how they process difficulty and failure, revealing that they don't know how to support each other's learning processes.
“Where Are You with Teaching as learning — the teacher's examined life?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.