The Importance of Failure

I’ll start off by statingthe obvious: failing hurts.

But failing can also be very important.

Think about all of the times you wrote something thatpretty much everybody liked. How much attention did you pay to the criticism you did receive? If you’re like me, you probably found it hard to focus on the criticism even if that criticism was quite constructive. The problem is that when almost everything works, it becomes incredibly easy to overlook what doesn’t work. Aspeople, we generally enjoy r...