Failure and I are twins. We have coexisted happily for years now. It wasn’t fun in the beginning. The problem was that I never liked to fail. So in those early years I did what one of the idioms in my mother tongue, Malayalam, describes as ‘roll where you fall’ meaning make your fall appear as not a fall but a roll that you chose. However, eventually that becomes quite boring. Moreover, the onlookers will understand your trick sooner than later. One of the fundamental and irrevocable truths of life is that people love losers. Losers make people feel comfortable with themselves. Another such truth is that it is easy to fail than succeed. Ask the bulb man Edison who reportedly counted 10,000 failures on the way to illuminating the world with his bulb. That was a neat number: 10,000. Lucky man Edison was to get such a neat number of failures unless he was being metaphorical. I find James Dyson a greater consolation. He gives us a more convincing
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