data.....................

 

"Are you asking what the point is when it isn't a perfect straight line from goal to achievement?"

I looked at the floor.  Yes.  That was what I was asking. . . .

"This is the process.  The process is what it is even though it doesn't always match our expectations for ourselves or the expectations others put on us.  But being real about the process is the way forward.  Taking one step forward and then two steps backward is not a calamity.  It's the inevitable process."

"So we just expect to fail again and again?"

"Is that so bad?"

"It certainly feels bad." . . .

"Think of it in science terms, not in moral terms.  Each of these attempts at the next step is an experiment.  It doesn't give us victory or defeat.  It gives us data. We need that data.  When we reframe from 'success or failure' to 'experiment and data,' we capture the truer sense of what this is."

-Jarod K. Anderson, Something In The Woods Loves Us