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Page 98. Booker T. Washington says success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Hidden Potential The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant

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And measure a life rightly, as Booker T. Washington did — not by the position you reach but by the obstacles you overcame getting there — remembering that the difficulties faced by the one in the arena are largely invisible to the crowd that critiques him, that the crucible, whatever its form, is what forges the strongest into who they become, and that many an ordinary person has found the strength to bear stark adversity, far more often than the frightened mind believes. For the deepest wisdom comes only from the falls themselves: adversity distorts reality in the moment but crystallizes the truth of what matters; loss amplifies the value of all that remains; and it is always easier to build a new dream than to cling to a broken one. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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