A good friend of mine in business once told me that success was the ability to withstand repeated failure without losing your enthusiasm to be successful. I would agree with this.
Very interesting reflection, Incog.
What you're saying here is precisely why raising resiliant kids is so important to me. It's also one of the reasons I worry so much about kids having everything come easily in school. If you never fail, it becomes hard to face failure and try again, hard to know what acceptable/necessary risk looks like, hard to make even a small mistake without feeling like you've lost your identity. That's not healthy.
I'm strong-willed, but I don't think I'm a very resiliant person. That is one of my greatest flaws, I think. I want my kids to "bounce back" better than I do.
As I said, interesting...
