Failure Is Common

Just read the James Altucher's Choose Yourself. Very inspiring piece of work. Inspiring in a sense that many other books are talking about: failure is not only normal but failure is very-very common.
Almost-evident wisdom but still it takes to read many-many books talking about this in one or the other fashion (and heck a lot of practice of failing) to really feel that with your own bones.
Great book!

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