This is only good advice if you don't care about potentially wasting years of your life. It's fine to fail, but don't set out to fail. Failure can be forgiven,

This is only good advice if you don't care about potentially wasting years of your life. It's fine to fail, but don't set out to fail. Failure can be forgiven, but somewhere people got it into their heads that they should brag about it. Lots of people wore bellbottoms, too. Doesn't mean it was an idea for the ages.