
The School of Life: On Failure: How to succeed at defeat

Richard Rohr: If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure.

But not all societies and eras have seen success and failure in such a stark and forbidding light. In ancient Greece, another rather remarkable possibility – ignored by our own era – was envisaged: you could be good and yet fail. To keep this idea at the front of the collective imagination, the ancient Greeks developed a particular art form: tragic
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