As Thomas Edison said,

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

The most certain way to succeed is to always try one more time.

I know there are going to be a million times in your life where you want to give up,

where you absolutely ache with the desire to quit,

where nothing sits inside of your gut,

other than the certainty that you are going to fail,

that you are not good enough to push forward.

But that is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of a failure.

The nature of a failure is not to tell you who you are.

The nature of a failure is to tell you a way that didn't work.

It's to inform. It's to educate you.

It's to test you.

It's to be a gut check, to find out if you believe in yourself enough to push forward,

even when the world seems to be telling you not to.

And as Brian Tracy said,

attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Think about that for a second.

Attempt the impossible just to get better,

to try the things that you know are going to fail.

Things that the world is going to tell you simply cannot be.

But even if it violates the laws of physics,

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