A great line from Gretchen Rubin’s delightful blog (The Happiness Project):
If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough.
It’s similar to a basketball truism about playing defense (“If you commit no fouls at all, you’re not trying hard enough.”), and just as true.
She has a book by the same name, which I have not read yet.
(This post first appeared at my other (now deleted) blog, and was transferred to this blog on 25 January 2021.)