Don’t Give Up on Yourself

“It’s better to have tried and failed than to have never failed at all.” People have told me some variation of that for years. I would always get annoyed because I didn’t like failing. I got sick of people telling me it was okay to fail. I would always think ‘No. It’s better to succeed. Failure is weakness.”

It took a long time to understand that failure is a part of growth. If everything was handed to you, if everything was easy, then it really wasn’t worth it. It didn’t serve the purpose of...