ABSTRACT
We learn more from our failures than from our successes. Success often depends heavily on serendipitous elements, on factors of which we are happily ignorant, or on the interweaving of causal threads in background patterns that we cannot even imagine. Face to face with our failures, we are obliged to recognize the minuscule contribution that we are able to add to a chaotic world, as well as to salute the influence of innumerable actors of whose existence we are often barely aware.
