Every single one of you has a unique set of experience s. And so to try right, to be brave enough to put yourself fully out there, is to risk failing. To risk failing is to risk shame, criticism and, most of all, ar ego,. It took an immense amount of courage on carter's part to embrace except to look in the mirror go, i didn't always give my best... But this is where rickover and the idea of doing your best comes back in. He says that all great ideas have been as failure when they are too early.