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 ...

You know that when it comes to writing a personal statement and any other required or optional essays, ... Don't Fail The MBA Failure Essay. Reading Time: 3 minutes.

LEARNING TO FALL The Blessings of an Imperfect Life By Philip Simmons Bantam 176 pages, $16.95 * It's a spiritual truth reflecting on much in life: We must learn to fall if we're ever going to walk.

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.