They conclude their essay by providing their own grade on how they have evolved through failure and mistakes (from 0 – meaning "I never failed" or "I learned nothing from failing" to 10 – meaning "I ...

Nobody likes to fail. But women take failure particularly hard—studies have shown that women are so averse to failure that they don't apply for jobs unless they feel 100 percent qualified. This ...

Billie Jean King, winner of 39 Grand Slam Tennis titles, said, “Losing a tennis match isn’t failure, it’s research.” Thomas Edison said he hadn’t failed, but rather “found 10,000 ways ...

For failure is no laughing matter. In Western culture, and especially in the U.S., we tend to associate failure with the most serious of calamities: loss of social status and respectability ...

>> i ran a respectable half-marathon last weekend in duluth. yay, me, right? well, not really. i had actually signed up to run the whole 26.2-mile grandma's enchilada.

Stephen Marche’s new book, “On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer,” from which this essay is adapted, comes out this month.

Then, I finally got a heart failure diagnosis. To celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, my husband and I planned a trip to Hawaii. We decided to go, even though I wasn’t feeling great.