AVID Weekly: When Failing Equals Success / In Defense of Boredom

After reading both AVID Weekly articles, "When failing equals success" and "In defense of boredom," create a Blogger post for each article.

In each post provide a brief summary of the article, but please answer the following questions:

1) What claim does the author make in this article?
2) What evidence does the author use to make his or her claims?
3) Do you agree or disagree with the author's stance? Why or why not?

After posting, please comment on two other posts (one for each article).