Embrace failure.

Revel in its richness.

It will teach you more about yourself than success could ever do.

And, sometimes, failure will be the springboard to magnificent success.

Oh, really?

Just ask these guys:

Lewis and Clark

Their mission was to find the mythical Northwest Passage, the long-sought “direct water communication from sea to sea.”

But there was no direct link between Atlantic and Pacific to be found.

Instead, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery charted a continent more vast and varied than could then have been imagined, forging a path for America’s westward migration during the 19th century.

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