Well if you aren't failing you're not trying. I think we as Americans, I can't speak to any sort of European or other experience, have grown up with this attitu

Well if you aren't failing you're not trying. I think we as Americans, I can't speak to any sort of European or other experience, have grown up with this attitude that makes us very afraid of putting ourselves into situations where we could potentially fail. For instance, a few months back when I began working on my startup when I would tell people about it one of the biggest responses I would get is "I wish I had the guts to try and do something like this" or "Aren't you afraid". One of the best quotes I've ever heard about failure comes from the Teddy Roosevelt "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."