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Sun Tzu's eight rules on how to develop character from failure.
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This article explains that we must explore the borderlands between what is safe and what is foolhardy to be successful. The end result of opening ourselves to the world of possibilities is eventually meeting adversity. No matter how good our training in strategy, our encounters with adversity cannot always result in progress. If failure becomes a habit, we learn little from it. Those who drift wherever life takes them never learn from adversity and failure. Only a dead fish floats downstream.