The Line I Keep Coming Back To

Failure isn’t fatal — unless you quit.

That doesn’t mean you never stop. Sometimes stopping is the right call. Confusing stubbornness with resilience is its own failure mode.

What it means is this: failure only ends you if you let it be the last word. The mine ran dry on Darby. Cari Lightner was taken from her mother in the most devastating way imaginable. Those were real losses. Permanent ones. But neither story ended there — because the people living them refused to let it.

Where has failure started to feel like a verdict in your leadership?

Where have you been treating a setback as a conclusion when it was actually just a data point?

Those are the places worth looking at.