Tom Brady—who was a sixth-round NFL pick, at number 199—is a strong proponent of failing in order to succeed. He’s perhaps the best-known football player past or present, and is the winningest player in the league’s history, holding a record seven Super Bowl titles.

At Fortune’s Global Forum in New York last November, Brady—a father of three—extolled the virtues of letting your kids fail , even if that’s no longer the norm.

“Think of today’s world, how we screw these kids up,” Brady told Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell. “Every time they mess up, we send them to an easier place to succeed.”

That’s not how Brady experienced it . As a high schooler, he had to “grind each year” to finally get a chance to play as a starting quarterback as a senior. Today, he said, a kid in

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