Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned n...
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Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. ...
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Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.
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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.
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Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
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Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.
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So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that ...
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You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you liv...
