Use Failure as a Motivator to Try Again

Imagine if all the great inventors and scientists throughout history used failure as an excuse to give up. Would we have ever had electricity? The telephone? The airplane? The Internet? A cure for polio or other eradicated diseases?Even the most successful individuals among us have failed at something in our lives. Persistence, adaptability and experimentation have enabled us to move past those

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