So I'm not ready to write my essay to NPR for their "This I Believe" series, but today's essay was a good one. Written in the idea that you should fail to learn and grow, because really, what do you learn if you succeed at everything?

“Success is boring. Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do… Failure is how we learn.”

Its strange to think back though and realize that most of my failures frustrated the hell out of me. If its true that failures are a good thing why do they have to be like vegetables? You know, they're good for me but given the choice, I'm sure I'd rather just have big bowl of ice cream.

Also, what about successes where you're not sure you can do it? I mean, after failing a million times at not doing something correctly and then finally getting it. Think about the gratification you would get afterwards? Then again, maybe all those preceding trials only making success that much sweeter afterwards and that's what he's talking about.

Jon Carroll wrote the essay and from his picture on NPR's website, he looks like a pretty old dude. Maybe that's why I believe him more because he's probably had a lot more failures than I have had.