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Fail More: Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success
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Fail More: Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success

by Bill Wooditch
March 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
3h 40m
English
McGraw-Hill
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CHAPTER 4

Break Through the Obstacles That Limit Success

My upbringing allowed me to be comfortable with failure. The one trait in a lot of dyslexic people I know is that by the time we got out of college, our ability to deal with failure was very highly developed. And so, we look at most situations and see much more of the upside than the downside. Because we’re so accustomed to the downside. It doesn’t faze us. I thought about it many times, I really have, because it defined who I am. I wouldn’t be where I am today without my dyslexia. I never would’ve taken that first chance.

—GARY COHN

Gary Cohn grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, a product of the 1960s, with middle-class values and a blue-collar work ethic. As a child, Cohn was diagnosed with dyslexia. ...

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