Girls in full dress splash about next to boys who have put down their guns to learn to swim.

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Better learn to swim.

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To date, the Josh Project has helped more than 1, 000 children learn how to swim.

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Harvey's final rule is the most important: learn how to swim.

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We start out willing to fail as we learn to walk and talk and swim and ride a bike, but somewhere along the line we come to think that we have to get it right first time, every time, before even starting out.

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Learn to be carried along by the current instead of trying to swim upstream and your portfolio will thank you.

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"It might surprise some to learn that a species so well adapted to living around water actually needs to be taught how to swim, but that's exactly what happens, " he said.

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Also, if parents can't swim, their children are far less likely to learn how, according to a recent study conducted by the University of Memphis.

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