Ted talks: http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_have_a_great_career.html
a great talk on why most people are destined for mediocrity. I've spent a lot of time making excuses and accepting mediocrity. over the past month or so i've started to put the excuses aside and step out of my comfort zone. it's pretty scary out here at first, but it's a fun scary. i'm attempting to stretch and see where i can go.
failure is only failure if you give up on it completely, otherwise it's an opportunity to learn and improve.
are you failing or are you learning?
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Excerpt from the speech "Citizenship In A Republic"
delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
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