I had the opportunity to recently watch an Akira Kurosawa film called Ikiru. A beautiful, not overly sentimental film about what someone can do with their life once they are determined to make something with it. Reading this article saddens me because it's positioning failure as an inevitability - but what is really failure? Isn't failure just part of the learning curve?

As someone wiser than me said, it's:

    you -> failure -> failure -> success

    not

    failure <- you -> success