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On Saturday morning, after an hour and a half of storm paddling with a crew of surfskiers on Bellingham Bay, I wound up at a round table discussion with a carpenter, two school teachers, an engineer and a spiritual healer.
All of us are parents, and as we sipped piping hot coffee and ate warm bread, we talked mostly about kids and, specifically, the importance of exposing them to long strings of opportunity.
The conversation took several tangents, as they do, but keyed in on 2 or 3 main points that we all agreed upon. The one I enjoyed the most was that, If a child or any person can be conditioned to accept failure as a messenger of a lesson, and then with that lesson try the thing again, ad infinitum, then that person shall have the world.
My friend Mark, one of the school teachers at the table, reminded us of a Winston Churchill quote that fit perfectly. I’m honored to share it here:
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
I hope when my own son is a little older and is spending his days at school, he becomes used to me asking him at the dinner table, “So, Hayden, any good failures today?”
