Wisdom can be learned and earned.
“I think we’re shaped by failure at least as much as we’re shaped by our success. When I have a guest on a show, I like to talk to them about their failures- not to show them up, but because that’s part of what defines us.
Sometimes it’s not the cheery, upbeat lessons that really explain how a person got to be where they are. It’s the things they tried to do and couldn’t do. The things they’re still struggling to do.”
-Terry Gross, radio program host.