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Failure: A Spectacular Way to Grow
Failure is such an ugly word, and an outcome to be avoided at all costs. Isn’t it? It seems that the older we get the fewer risks we want to take. Yet as we consider our own mortality, an urgency takes hold and we realize that if we don’t try now do something we’ve always wanted to do, it’s likely that we never will. This sobering thought can lead to a lot of mental wrestling. Could we succeed? What if we fail? Is it even worth it to try? Yes. I recently started reading a book called The Virtues of Failure by Charles Pepin (a French book that, unfortunately has…