![]() It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. ![]() I don’t think the world understands that because of shame.” – Brene BrownĪn excerpt from a speech Teddy Roosevelt delivered in Paris in 1910, known to most of us as “The Man in the Arena” quote, touched some deep place in my heart as a young man on this subject of failure and success: And no one that gets on this stage so far that I’ve seen has not failed. “You know what the big secret about TED is? This is like the failure conference…You know why this place is amazing? Because very few people here are afraid to fail. In a recent Ted talk she gave great visibility to failure: I’ve been receiving a lot lately from Brene Brown and her teaching and world class research on shame and vulnerability. The narrow road to becoming a man of noble strength and love inevitably involves a poignant list of as many failures as it does sucesses. “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson ![]()
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