In the Upper School chapel talk he gave on Tuesday, Mr. Schalles talked about 'failing to the top'. One example he gave concerned the invention of the lightbulb. We often think about Thomas Alva Edison as being a genius, and he was a truly intelligent individual.
Edison went through over a thousand failures before he finally invented a working lightbulb. Mr. Schalles used this point to emphasize that everybody fails. True failure is giving up before achieving that which you set out to accomplish.
2 comments:
Everyone fails in something because nobody is perfect, but you can be the best you can be. This kindof ties back into the confidence thing because if you are about to lose and you think you are failing it is hard to ragain your confidence.
Julian Mills
Clemson is the best team ever.
I know a bunch of smart people and I have known them to fail a quiz or too but they still get five A pluses and I only get one ( Ned brothers, who needs em?)
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