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The students responded with a broad array of stories about times they had finally faced a fear that had been holding them back, 这种恐惧在大多数情况下都是他们自己承受的.  Their stories included times that they had chosen to risk failure by electing a more challenging course load, 尝试新的运动或活动, or choosing the most rigorous Outdoor Experience option; to risk feeling exposed by speaking out on a controversial topic in history class or at church; to risk social rejection by standing up for a friend who was being treated poorly or asking to sit with a new group at lunch; to risk being alone by choosing to attend Waynflete and leaving old friends behind; and to risk emotional pain by learning to accept one’s own feelings or by confiding those feelings to another.

We also asked the students to explain what gave them the courage to take those risks.  在上面列出的每个例子中，以及学生们提到的更多例子中, 他们提到了父母的重要性, 他们的朋友, 并信任大人帮助他们选择做正确的事.  They also noted the importance of their own internal capacity to push through fear of any kind.

Geoff的演讲结束后, we conducted the survey of US students cited above to find out what holds them back from taking positive risks and what helps them to push through.  (点击 在这里 (浏览调查问题). 以下是部分结果:

• Seventy-seven percent of the students reported being held back in a significant way by some form of fear sometimes(60%), 经常(15%), 或每天(2%).
• 在列出的阻碍学生bet365官网的主要因素中, failure (64%) and social embarrassment (63%) topped the list followed by criticism (48%) and rejection (35%).  26%或更少的学生表现出了其他恐惧.
• Of the sources of support that help students overcome their fears and to take positive risks, 家庭排名最高, 接着是学生们自己,  他们的朋友, 信任的成年人, 以及他们不认识的人的鼓舞人心的例子.
• Eighty-nine percent of the students reported being interested in building their capacities to take positive risks, with the bulk of them (47% of all students) reporting that they have already started pushing themselves to do so.  关于 a quarter of the student body reported that they are interested in building their capacity to take positive risks but have no idea how to do so.

The survey is probably not sophisticated enough to yield many scientifically valid conclusions.  它的数据确实如此, 然而, seem to indicate that various forms of fear do hold our students back from making some choices that would help them to grow.  事实上, 学生们甚至还列出了阻碍他们前进的因素, 包括一种普遍的焦虑感.  The student response to the survey may even support the notion held by many that ours in an age in which a pervasive sense of uncertainty about the future has caused a heightened anxiety that is inhibiting the ability of young people to thrive.  While t在这里 may not be much that we as the significant adults in the lives of our youth can do now to make the future more certain, bet365官网当然可以努力让他们掌控自己的生活.  One way to do so is to help them to build their capacities to take the risks that will help them grow.

The survey data also shows clearly that parents are the most important force in the lives of young people.  虽然这一事实并不令我惊讶, 提醒你的父母可能会让人耳目一新, given that your children are of an age when they might not communicate that point on a regular basis.  数据还揭示了支持你的朋友的重要性, which validates the work we do to cultivate a healthy social climate and respectful peer relations at school.  数据显示了值得信赖的成年人在学生生活中的重要性, which certainly validates the work we do as a faculty to build relationships with our students.  除了, the data also indicates an overwhelming interest among students in building their capacities to face up to fears and take positive risks, 许多人报告说，他们已经在努力这样做了.  这是个好消息.

冒险是一个棘手的话题，很难吸引bet365官网的学生.  一方面, t在这里 are many risk-taking behaviors that we actively discourage because they are unhealthy, 自我毁灭的, 或危险.  另一方面, bet365官网不希望bet365官网的年轻人对这个世界感到恐惧，变得厌恶风险, 因为这肯定会阻碍他们的发展.  The survey data will be the focus of discussions by the 上学校 team as we consider ways to continue to help our students to build their capacities to take positive risks.  We hope you as parents will help as well by continuing to point your children towards the opportunities that they have to grow and bolstering them in the myriad ways you do to seize the day.