“Losing the gold on my first Olympics changed my life. I learned so tangibly (and devastatingly) early on that failure is not fatal. It stings. It sucks. But I came to see that failure is the setup for a comeback. The loses just inspire you to do better. To work harder. To learn from your mistakes.”
“Good judgment, as the aphorism goes, comes from experience—and experience comes from bad judgment.”
— Megan McArdle, The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success🔗
“If we want an educated population, a skilled workforce, an innovative society, then we will have to work just as hard as he did to persuade people that the pain of failure is like a blister in tennis—a sign that you are trying hard enough to improve.”
— Megan McArdle, The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success🔗