you might be driven by a fear of failure
quite as much as a desire for success
indeed your conception of failure might
not be too far removed from the average
person’s idea of success so high
have you already flown ultimately we all
have to decide for ourselves what
constitutes failure but the world is
quite eager to give you a set of
criteria if you let it so I think it
fair to say that by any conventional
measure a mere seven years after my
graduation day I had failed on an epic
scale an exceptionally short lived
marriage had imploded and I was jobless
a lone parent and as poor as it is
possible to be in modern Britain without
being homeless
the fears that my parents had had for me
and that I had had for myself had both
come to
and by every usual standard I was the
biggest failure I knew
now I’m not going to stand here and tell
you that failure is fun that period of
my life
and I had no idea that there was going
to be what the press has said since
represented as a kind of fairytale
resolution I had no idea then how far
the Telex
[Music]
and you light at the end of it was a
rather than a reality
so why do I talk about the benefits of
failure simply because failure meant is
stripping away of the
I stopped pretending to myself that I
was anything other than what I want
began to direct all my energy into
finishing the only work that mattered to
me had I really succeeded at anything
else I might never have found the
determination
one arena where I believed I truly
belong
I will set free
because my greatest fear
and I was still alive if I still had a
daughter whom I
and I have an old typewriter
became a solid pound
[Music]
you might never fail on the
unless you lose
might as well not
in which case
failure gave me an inner security that I
had never attained by passing
examinations failure taught me things
about myself that I could have learned
no other way I discovered that I had a
strong will and more discipline than I
had suspected I also found out that I
had friends whose value was truly above
the price of rubies the knowledge that
you have emerged wiser and stronger from
setbacks means that you are ever after
secure in your ability to survive you
will never truly know yourself or the
strength of your relationships until
both have been tested by adversity such
knowledge is a true gift for all that it
is painfully won and it has been worth
more than any qualification I ever
earned so given a time Turner I would
tell my 21 year old self the personal
happiness lies in knowing that life is
not a checklist of acquisition or
achievement your qualifications your CV
are not your life though you will meet
many people of my age and older who
confuse the two life is difficult
and complicated and beyond to anyone’s
total control
humility to know that will enable you to
survive
you
[Music]
quite as much as a desire for success
indeed your conception of failure might
not be too far removed from the average
person’s idea of success so high
have you already flown ultimately we all
have to decide for ourselves what
constitutes failure but the world is
quite eager to give you a set of
criteria if you let it so I think it
fair to say that by any conventional
measure a mere seven years after my
graduation day I had failed on an epic
scale an exceptionally short lived
marriage had imploded and I was jobless
a lone parent and as poor as it is
possible to be in modern Britain without
being homeless
the fears that my parents had had for me
and that I had had for myself had both
come to
and by every usual standard I was the
biggest failure I knew
now I’m not going to stand here and tell
you that failure is fun that period of
my life
and I had no idea that there was going
to be what the press has said since
represented as a kind of fairytale
resolution I had no idea then how far
the Telex
[Music]
and you light at the end of it was a
rather than a reality
so why do I talk about the benefits of
failure simply because failure meant is
stripping away of the
I stopped pretending to myself that I
was anything other than what I want
began to direct all my energy into
finishing the only work that mattered to
me had I really succeeded at anything
else I might never have found the
determination
one arena where I believed I truly
belong
I will set free
because my greatest fear
and I was still alive if I still had a
daughter whom I
and I have an old typewriter
became a solid pound
[Music]
you might never fail on the
unless you lose
might as well not
in which case
failure gave me an inner security that I
had never attained by passing
examinations failure taught me things
about myself that I could have learned
no other way I discovered that I had a
strong will and more discipline than I
had suspected I also found out that I
had friends whose value was truly above
the price of rubies the knowledge that
you have emerged wiser and stronger from
setbacks means that you are ever after
secure in your ability to survive you
will never truly know yourself or the
strength of your relationships until
both have been tested by adversity such
knowledge is a true gift for all that it
is painfully won and it has been worth
more than any qualification I ever
earned so given a time Turner I would
tell my 21 year old self the personal
happiness lies in knowing that life is
not a checklist of acquisition or
achievement your qualifications your CV
are not your life though you will meet
many people of my age and older who
confuse the two life is difficult
and complicated and beyond to anyone’s
total control
humility to know that will enable you to
survive
you
[Music]
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