“You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.”
Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.”
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