Hello, hello, everyone.

This is Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquell Press, and I'm here to give you another episode of The Weekender,

a mini episode to help you end your week on the right note.

I read an article the other day by Carl Richards in the New York Times, and I thought about it, and I thought about it for several

days afterwards. I read and reread the article, and I thought it was just too good not to share

word for word just as Mr. Richards wrote it. So here it is. Will you try

something for me? Grab a blank piece of paper. Draw a line down the middle and think of the last

time you saw someone fail. Might take you a minute to remember. Got it?

Now, on the left side of the paper,

write down a few words describing how that failure made you think about that person.

Now, I want you to think about the last time that you failed.

I bet it won't take nearly as long to recall.

And on that right side of the paper, jot down a few words describing how that failure made you think about yourself.

Finally, compare the two.

If you're like me, you probably had one or both of the following things happen.

One, when you tried to remember someone else's failure, you couldn't.

But when you thought of your own, you had a laundry list of recollections.

And number two, the left side, where you considered that other person, had words like compassion, courage, bravery, and the right

side had words like shame and stupidity. Isn't it interesting that when we see others fail, we tend to

admire them for trying? Yet when we fail, we beat ourselves up for the very same thing.

Not only that, but isn't it also amazing how quickly we forgive and forget other people's mistakes

and how long we hold on to our own?

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