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“You don’t need learn to accept failure, or enjoy it,” Eric told him. “But don’t fear it either. Failure is the first step to success, and the most important. If you never fail, then you’ve never truly tried.”
In rare cases, in fact, it was entirely possible for both sides of a war to ‘win’, because their individual victory conditions didn’t negate each other. More often, though, the side that lost did so because it got tied up fighting the battles and forgot to fight the war.
“NO one likes it,” Eric snorted. “But it’s true. There’s always a race going on, between information gathering and deciding, though, and if you’re not certain… it’s usually better to take action than sit around waiting.”
One thing he’d learned, serving under Eric for so long, was that preparation accounted for more than just the obvious.
He was a man who was used to disappointment, however, and knew how to put it aside when there was a job to be done.
