“Most highly successful people carry around a  bulky legacy of failures, humiliations, and dumb actions. The truly wise ones know that these potholes are not necessarily behind them. What this means is that they allowed nothing kill their will to succeed. And while they may have made countless mistakes, it’s unlikely that they ever made the same mistake twice, once they learned the lesson.
Evolution teaches us that the universe kills stagnation and encourages mutation. Most successful people have mutated themselves many times. Their only other choice was to become yesterday’s newspaper.” Jeff Herman