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FAILURE AS A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE
Can failure ever be positive? Of course, if that’s how we decide to view it. View it as a milestone or lesson on the way to success, then that’s what it will be. View it, instead, as a final and total condemnation of your character and – indeed – that too will be the near-certain result.
My writing “career” is a strong case in point with respect to the self-fulfilling nature of our view of failure. Having spent the last 18 months of my banking career “reverse commuting” to Greenwich, Connecticut, I used the journey to write about my experiences as a single British lad living in New York. Typed up in the evenings, I soon had around 60,000 words and was looking for a literary agent. By some miracle (in fact, ...
