Ever Tried. Ever Failed.
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
-Samuel Beckett
We tend to think successful personalities often walk a trail filled with sunshine and daisies with no hardships and failure, where failure is more of a thought experiment than a reality.
Garbage. The best of them all aren't the ones who never fail - the best of them all are often the ones who fail the most, but learn from where they've fallen.
"The more output you churn out, the more variety you get and the better your chances of stumbling on something truly original...what you see is that originals are not that different from the rest of us. They feel fear and doubt. They procrastinate.They have bad ideas. And sometimes, it's not in spite of those qualities but because of them that they succeed."
-Adam Grant