In an age that worships success, there’s a movement to reclaim failure.
I talked about failure in my first book, 5 Bucks a Day, lo those many years ago (2006 actually). I said “failure is your friend” and I still believe it, live by it, and I think it has made me many millions in those 16 years and counting.
In the last decade or so, efforts to reframe failure have pushed it to the surface of popular culture. Google ‘failure’ today, and you’ll find motivational speakers and tech entrepreneurs hawking it as the secret to 21st-century success.
“Failure is not the dark side of the American Dream; it is the foundation of it.” – Scott Sandage, author of ‘Born Losers’
Ubiquitous among their slogans is a line from Samuel Beckett: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Whatever the Irish author’s original intentions, Silicon Valley has appropriated the notion as its own.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-success-of-failure-1.6283745