“We hold this truth to be self-evident:” People fail literally all the time. In the span of me writing that relatively short sentence, billions of people around the world failed at something. Failure has long been a major topic on this here blog, so much so that I believe it’s in my blog description at the top of the page.
It all started when I realized (somewhat later into a professional career) that managers are terrible at dealing with failure, and then over time it evolved into different things like Hooters waitresses (ha!) and questioning success vs. questioning failure, then once I found a cool story about a company that makes animal feed and outperforms Apple’s stock (really!) and that was all tied to notions of bouncing back from failure. Then, somewhere along the line of blogging a bunch about failure, I myself got divorced, which ’tis a form of failure, and so I wrote about that a couple of times, with this post probably being the most notable.
Long story short: I consider failure a lot, so when I came across a new article on Northwestern’s website, I was fascinated. It’s called “Why do some people succeed after failing, while others keep floundering?” Honestly seems like a central question of life to me, although potentially an under-discussed one.
