The more committed you are to a project, the less likely it will fail, but the worse you will feel if it does fail.
The less committed you are to a project, the less bad you will feel if it fails, but the greater the likelihood that it will fail.
Failure is one of the most negative words we know, yet some people who are as committed as anyone can be—think of Edison with more than a thousand failures and setbacks before he invented the incandescent light bulb—are able to renew their intensity and purpose after failure time and again. Why, you might in all fairness ask, can some people make the considerable commitment necessary for project success while quickly learning from their experiences if the project fails, but others are unable or slow ...
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