The Shocking Truth About Failure

If you try to roll a seven and instead roll an eight, did you fail? Or was it never up to you in the first place? (Photobytopher76)

The shocking truth aboutfailure: we tell ourselves we’ve failed when we haven’t.

Let’s get right to the point.

Chance outcomes can NOTbe considered failures.

Sure, you might call a chanceresult “failure” in the technical sense of the word (i.e. not a successful result). Most of us, however,think of failureas aperformance-based mistake or shortcoming of our own doing....