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Just because I lose doesn’t mean I failed, and just because I won doesn’t mean I succeeded—not
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
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The next time you fail, don’t let it keep you from the life you were born to live and the future you were meant to create. See failure as a test, a teacher, a detour to a better outcome and an event that builds a better you.
Ryan Leak • Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success
mistake? Well, you had a hypothesis and it turned out to be wrong. Why should that upset you? It wouldn’t piss off a scientist, it would help him. Maybe don’t bet so much on it next time. And now you’ve learned two things: that your instinct was wrong, and the kind of appetite for risk you really have.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
Remember this and repeat it to yourself over and over until it sticks: There is no failure. You just haven’t found your answer yet.
Katie Lee • The Effortless Everyday: How to design your daily life to free up time and energy for what really matters
the path, but not the direction: forward. What setbacks in our lives could resist that elegant, fluid, and powerful mastery? To be physically and mentally loose takes no talent. That’s just recklessness. (We want right action, not action period.)