Tag: failure
Year in Review: My Greatest Successes (and Biggest Failures) of 2017
When you work a more traditional kind of office job with a more traditional kind of company,...
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Sunday Snippet: Noor Unnahar
When you fall, do it gloriously. Collapse like a glass building. Sink like a gigantic ship. And...
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What’s Up Wednesdays: Spiderwebs and Office Space
Every Wednesday, I share five interesting blog posts from around the Internet. Let’s dive...
Read MoreSunday Snippet: Samuel McChord Crothers (1857-1927) on Failure
“Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.” The sooner you...
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Sunday Snippet: J. K. Rowling
“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I...
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Sunday Snippet: Michael Jordan
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not...
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Failure Is Inevitable (So Deal with It)
That sounds like an awfully depressing statement, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s all...
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Sunday Snippet: Charlie Sheen
“As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal...
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Sunday Snippet: Thomas Edison on Failure
“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”...
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All Success Carries the Risk of Failure
Many people seem to assume that if you were to look at success and failure, you’d see them...
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Hi, I'm Michael. By day, I'm a writer and editor. By night, I'm still a writer and editor. I'm also an engaged work-at-home dad, a voracious foodie, an avid traveler, and a thinker who thinks he might be thinking too much. Beyond the Rhetoric is a reflection of my eclectic life, fueled by caffeine and Wi-Fi.
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