In praise of failure

Interesting article. J.K. Rowlings is one intelligent, inspiring, and interesting woman.

The biggest advancements in my ongoing education have come from being wrong with a willingness to listen to and learn from those who can explain why.
Failure may not always lead to success, but it makes the journey far less painful.

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Wonderful. Thanks for the heads up 2D!

Thanks twodee for reminding me of something I forget occasionally.

I love Churchill's bulldog face and his persistence that matched it. “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” I love that idea. Embrace failure. Learn from failure. Be thankful for failure. Face each failure with happiness because your next effort might prove to be more successful than you might imagine.

Edison experienced thousands of failures before inventing a workable light bulb. Thankfully he did not give up, and thankfully others have striven to make it better.

Nice. Thanks!

yeah more than half of success in anything is knowing what DOESN'T work (welcome to human nature) and put another way I've heard, stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result each time.

I like huntre's take, because, then again, what pinnacle is success in and of itself really? I'm certain we all may know some who are only too eager to leverage and measure their own successes stictly in terms of your or someone else's personal or professional failures; because in the expendable sometimes chaotic world we manage to live in, so humility naturally would demand, if you're not up to task, the common thought is, someone else may be. and isn't that what so many people choose to believe about each other today? perhaps that's why even divorce is a much more "exciting" proposition than it used to be in years gone by, considered more honestly, in lieu of believing for possibilities of bettering marriages and relationships for so many today.

Seen this way, love really isn't a verb, it's just a list of our varied expectations, and how you navigate it in all our diverse and fickle assumptions determines not only your present but your future "success" with your wife, your boss...your family...your friends... Success I guess to me might then rather be that oft-underestimated, antiquated and discounted for moderism, yet time-tested, golden Golden Rule...that's the highest order to praise.

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