Beyond the Rhetoric

That sounds like an awfully depressing statement, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s all a matter of perspective. Last year, I wrote a post on how the possibility of any kind of success always carried with it the risk of failure. If you’re swinging along on the monkey bars, you have to let go [...]

“As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?” I know. You’re probably in one of two camps over the whole Charlie Sheen situation on Twitter. On the one hand, you [...]

“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison is well known for all the incredible inventions that he has been able to create. Everyone just assumes that he had a brilliant mind and every attempt turned into a resounding success. He indeed may have been brilliant, but he was anything [...]

Many people seem to assume that if you were to look at success and failure, you’d see them as being at opposite ends of the spectrum. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact of the matter is that success and failure are effectively two sides of the same coin and they are at [...]