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Why Failure Lingers
Failures take on a life of their own because the brain remembers incomplete tasks or failures longer than any success or completed activity. It’s ...
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Charles Schulz: Lover of Losers
With the death of "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles Schulz, many commented on his ability to reflect on the sadnesses of real life through the experiences ...
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Mark of the Call
Quite often the absence of immediate success is the mark of a genuine call.
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A Society of Inadequacy
Deep down we have a sense of individual insecurity. Maxwell Maltz, who wrote Psycho-Cybernetics, estimates that 95 percent of people in our society have ...
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Forgetting the Point of It All
Max De Pree tells a wonderful story, and he swears that it's true, about those wonderful tomato growers in central California. More successful at ...
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Doing the Wrong Things
We try too hard to do the wrong things. No matter how much effort or ingenuity you put into the wrong mode, you still fail.
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"Success" Doesn't Count
A missionary wrote me: "Sometimes adversity tempts me to discouragement in the face of seeming failure. But I take courage and press on anew, as ...
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Choosing to Suffer
When local magistrates sentenced [John] Bunyan to imprisonment unless he promised them he would not preach, he refused, declaring that he would remain ...
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Real Success and Real Failure
Among the apostles, the one absolutely stunning success was Judas, and the one thoroughly groveling failure was Peter. Judas was a success in the ways ...
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Fear and Joy Go Together
If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.
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