19 Failure Is a Good Thing

名称：19 Failure Is a Good Thing
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晨读英语美文 励志感悟
[00:00.33]Failure Is a Good Thing
[00:06.34]Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten, and I wished her success.
[00:12.69]I was lying.
[00:13.76]What I actually wish for her is failure.
[00:17.92]I believe in the power of failure.
[00:20.76]Success is boring.
[00:23.06]Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do,
[00:29.52]or doing something correctly the first time, which can often be a problematic victory.
[00:36.41]First-time success is usually a fluke.
[00:40.57]First-time failure, by contrast, is expected; it is the natural order of things.
[00:48.45]Failure is how we learn.
[00:51.18]I have been told of an African phrase describing a good cook as "she who has broken many pots."
[01:00.15]If you've spent enough time in the kitchen to have broken a lot of pots,
[01:05.73]probably you know a lot about cooking.
[01:09.23]I once had a dinner with a group of chefs,
[01:13.28]and they spent time comparing knife wounds and burn scars.
[01:17.99]They knew how much credibility their failures gave them.
[01:22.58]I earn my living by writing a daily newspaper column.
[01:27.28]Each week I am aware that one column is going to be the worst column.
[01:32.97]I don't set out to write it; I try my best every day.
[01:37.68]I have learned to cherish that column.
[01:41.73]A successful column usually means that I am treading on familiar ground,
[01:47.42]going with the tricks that work or dressing up popular sentiments in fancy words.
[01:53.87]Often in my inferior columns, I am trying to pull off something I've never done before,
[02:01.53]something I'm not even sure can be done.
[02:05.03]My younger daughter is a trapeze artist.
[02:08.86]She spent three years putting together an act.
[02:12.36]She did it successfully for years.
[02:15.54]There was no reason for her to change the act- but she did anyway.
[02:20.68]She said she was no longer learning anything new and she was bored.
[02:25.81]So she changed the act.
[02:28.33]She risked failure and profound public embarrassment in order to feed her soul.
[02:34.68]My granddaughter is a perfectionist.
[02:38.18]She will feel her failures, and I will want to comfort her.
[02:43.00]But I will also, I hope, remind her of what she learned,
[02:48.68]and how she can do whatever it is better next time.
[02:53.61]I hope I can tell her, though, that it's not the end of the world.
[02:58.43]Indeed, with luck, it is the beginning.