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Here is an excerpt from a book I recently read, "The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success," by Megan McArdle.

We tend to assume that failure happens because someone, somewhere, did something wrong. In fact, often failure is the result of doing something very right: trying something that you've never done before, maybe something that no one's ever done before...The metaphor for our age is the disappearance of high monkey bars from playgrounds around the country. We have made it impossible for children to fall very far – and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.