A Failure Doesn't Mean You Are Unworthy,

What I've Learned, Above All, Is To Keep Marching Forward Because The Best News Is That Since Chance Does Play A Role, One Important Factor In Success Is Under Our Control: The Number Of At Bats, The Number Of Chances Taken, The Number Of Opportunities Seized.

When We Are In The Grasp Of Illusion - Or, For That Matter, Whenever We Have A New Idea - Instead Of Searching For Ways To Prove Our Ideas Wrong, We Usually Attempt To Prove Them Correct. Psychologists Call This The Confirmation Bias, And It Presents A Major Impediment Of Our Ability To Break Free From The Misinterpretation Of Randomness.

Regression Toward The Mean. That Is, In Any Series Of Random Events An Extraordinary Event Is Most Likely To Be Followed, Due Purely To Chance, By A More Ordinary One.

Listeners Instinctively Detect That When We Lower The Usual Pitch Of Our Voice, We Are Sad, And When We Raise It, We Are Angry Or Fearful.

A Failure Doesn't Mean You Are Unworthy, Nor Does It Preclude Success On The Next Try.