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The Consolations of Failure
As Americans, we find ourselves in a culture that so fetishizes success that it cannot tolerate failure. So it deals with it in one of two ways. The first is to view failure in individualized terms, blaming the losers for their losses. The second, which is equally insidious, is to be so disdainful of failure that it insists that what looks like failure in fact is a mere “stepping-stone to success,”
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
https://yalereview.org/article/jennifer-ratner-rosenhagen-consolations-failure