I once heard that Sarah Blakley, the Billionaire Founder of Spanx, would sit around the dinner table with her family each night when she was a little girl and answer her father’s inevitable question: “How did you fail today?”

To have failure woven into the everyday vernacular of the dinner table, to have it talked about so matter of factly while continuing to eat and be merry with your family ensures one would become quite intimate and comfortable with failure.… Read the rest