Lesson Fourteen
PROFITING BY FAILURE
(Tou Can Do It if You Believe You Can!))
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RDINARILY FAILURE IS A NEGATIVE TERM.
But in this lesson the word will be given
a new meaning, because it has been a very much misused word and for
that reason has brought unnecessary grief and hardship to millions
of people.
I will distinguish here between failure and difeat) and you will see
if what is so often looked upon as failure is not, in reality, just
temporary defeat. Moreover, you will see if this temporary defeat
is not usually a blessing in disguise. You will also learn that sound
character is often the product of reversals and setbacks.
Neither temporary defeat nor adversity amounts to failure in the
mind of the person who looks upon it as a teacher of some needed