Failure is important...yes yes yes...heard it a million times! What isn't recognized so much is how discouraging it can be. Take for example, a small minor task I had today. I was formatting a final report and it took me 10 tries to get this small (relatively insignificant) graph just to fit on my page. It seemed unfair that I had to try 10 times before I got it right 1 time.
This applies to most things. In fact, most things take longer than 10 tries to get it right. If extrapolated to more of life, it implies that its possible to spend 90% of our time failing at one thing or another. That's discouraging!
Its amazing though, that the 1 right time made up for the 10 failed tries. Life isn't counted in one step forward, two steps back or whatever cliche is used. I think a better one is this:
Life is a pile of failures. The bigger your pile of failures the better. But only as long as you stay on top the pile, continuing to add to it, not letting yourself get sucked down into the pile.
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