The scars on the drum: A Nunyãdume reflection on failure, courage and the audacity to try

PART I: Failure is an event and a teacher, not an identity The young person may see a failure as the end of the road because there are not yet enough travelled roads behind him to know how often yesterday’s disappointment becomes tomorrow’s turning point.

Failure is part of the game Life is a game we enter intending to win.

The successful have graves behind them Look carefully at almost every great achievement and you will find a cemetery of abandoned drafts, rejected proposals, wrong turns, embarrassing mistakes and ideas that simply did not work.