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Humans are the most accomplished life-form on planet earth.

Accomplishing amazing things is what they will be remembered for

by whichever life-form takes sentient center stage in far flung future.

The first thing to remember about anything you try to accomplish…

Is that failure is imminent.

Failure, the art of getting it wrong,

is how all good discovery is made.

Thomas Edison didn’t just have a bright idea for a working light bulb.

He invented a thousand dimly lit bulbs that fizzled out

until one day he failed to get it wrong.

James Dyson didn’t come up with a brilliant new idea for a vacuum cleaner on a whim…

He came up with over 5000 prototypes for vacuum cleaners that didn’t suck

until one day he failed to get it wrong.

And for every accomplishment that seems to show greatness…

brilliance…

or genius…

We must remember that this is the result of a tremendous embrace of failure.

That any accomplishment casts a long shadow,

is only because of how late in the day we are seeing it.

Embracing failure,

learning from mistakes,

and pressing on isn’t just the sort of thing that some great inventers do…

It’s what we all celebrate together each time we tune into…

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