“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
