There is really nothing quite like failure as a motivator. As Samuel Beckett once said “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”<\/p>\n
Today I was disappointed that something didn’t go my way which I had fully expected to go my way. In moments that disappointed turned into a fire under my tail.<\/p>\n
I was determined that I would get something to succeed, if for no other reason than to make myself feel better. So I got to work tackling a daunting computer programming problem that I had been putting off.<\/p>\n
Sure enough, I got it working. And I probably never could have done it without having a good and proper failure under my belt.<\/p>\n
Maybe there is some sort of law of conservation of failure. When something doesn’t work out, it just motivates us to try harder to accomplish something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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