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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The case for failure

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Relationship Between Failure and Humility

I rather like this idea of failure as something that awakens us to the reality that things will go wrong. Maybe it's good every now and again to have our vanities and our expectations just flattened by the world. But that's just me talking. You may be a believer or not, you are a religious person or not. Humbleness remains a major virtue. We can call it virtue or we can call it attitude. Primarily at a very basic level, humility is about understanding. It helps us better understand our situation in the world.

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