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Perseverance is great, but don’t forget to prepare
- stanrivers 6y agoWe often define ourselves by either achieving or not achieving our goals. Sometimes we have to be fine with the fact that not all the goals we want to achieve are in fact goals we can achieve. But that doesn't mean we failed in a broad sense - many people don't even step up and give it a shot. "And it is important in life that you don’t define failure as failure to achieve only one specific goal. You can show up prepared and still not cross a specific finish line. 163 men participated in the Delta Force trials, but only 12 were ultimately accepted into the program. Those 151 men were not failures – not even close. They just had to accept that this Delta Force finish line wasn’t one they were going to cross and instead start progressing towards the next."