But anyway, I still love little stories that make sense and speak to you. Here, I'd post stuff that I like. And hopefully it speaks to you too.
"I owe my success as a scientist to failure," Maria said. She was short and plump with flashing eyes. "That is something you don't hear much about. All the time you try something and it doesn't work. I'm talking hundreds of times. All the experiments that go belly-up. It can get you down. But that's when you try again. All that trying and failing, that's what makes you good. And that's the fun of it, too. What a bore it would be if everything worked out fine the first time you tried it. How would you grow? How would you learn? People tend to give up after a lot of failure or rejection. I believe you have to embrace failure, really love it, say thank you, this is great, now I get to try again and do it right or at least do it better, come a little closer to what I was after, to what I was trying to find out."
Joe said, "Maria thinks she's talking about failure, but she's really talking about perserverance. It's a sublime quality, a noble virtue. Without perserverance, there can be no greatness. But failure is its instigator. When you do something good, it is tempting to stop right there and hold on to it for all you're worth. But that's playing it safe. Let the victory go. Give it away. nd take in the failure instead. As Maria said, embrace failure. It's come to help you grow."