“I don’t know. It seems there is a difference between ‘failure’ and ‘being a failure’.”
“How so?”
“There are plenty of times when people fail to accomplish their goals, but those failures don’t define them as a failure.”
“Ah, that’s a good point.” Dick was animated now. “Is there a limit to the number of times a person can fail – that is experience failure – without becoming a failure?”
The waitress had refilled my Diet Coke, eyeballed Dick’s bread disapprovingly and then hurried off.
“As long as a person accomplishes some of their goals along the gambling data indonesia way I’m willing to give them an unlimited number of failures without labeling them a failure,” I explained.
“So”, Dick said “an inability to achieve a goal that you establish is a failure but failures don’t define you as a failure.”
“Right,” I agreed.
“Then under what circumstances would you define yourself as a failure? I don’t mean a failure at life but let’s say that you consistently fail to achieve the goals you’ve established for your physical fitness. After a series of individual failures in this specific category of accomplishment – without intermittent successes – would you declare yourself a physical fitness failure?”
“Well, it sure seems like it. ,” I admitted.
