How do you feel about failure? It’s not something many people enjoy, yet it is something we all have to deal with. Absolutely everyone fails at something at some point. Maybe there are some people who don’t ever seem to fail, but they definitely have moments you may not know about that are less successful. With all the failure in the world, we might start to think that things aren’t looking too good. But is there another side to failure? What are the benefits to losing? As it turns out, failure is the way we learn. If you talk to successful people, they’ll often describe their first attempts as being failures, but they learned and kept going. Feeling the occasional pain of failure allows us to appreciate fully the joy of success. Here on the Apple Seed we have put together a few stories that may not seem like successes at first, but things turned around with some new ideas and a little work.

On today’s episode, enjoy the following:

“The Diffendaffer Taffy Cafe” by Laura K. Deal from The Diffendaffer Taffy Cafe (8:17)

“Two Bears” by Laura Simms from Four Legged Tales: Animal Stories from Here and Away (4:36)

“Armadillo Recon Unit” by Bil Lepp from The Divine Bovine (6:01)

“When the Cat Came to Mohammed” by Pam Faro from Andalusian Trilogy: Stories of Jews, Christians, and Muslims of Medieval Spain (4:53)

“The King of the Clams” by Bill Harley from Blah Blah Blah (14:53)

Radio Family Journal: "Second Day of College" (6:04)