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THE SUCCESS? IT COMES FROM WHAT YOU ARE WILLING TO FAIL AT

 Going-all in is everything. It keeps us alive, it makes us know ourselves, it makes us know what we want to excel at and yes, it also makes us successful.  Be sure of your success no matter the mistakes     The Latin poet Horace e ncouraged his friend       Massimo Lollio to "dare to be wise" in his "Epistles."     That means "have the courage to know!" Centuries  later, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant adopted the expression as the motto for the Enlightenment movement, saying " Have the courage to think for yourself!" Having courage, daring first and foremost. These tools help us understand our lives and ourselves, and they also help us achieve practical or conceptual goals.  How many times out of pure fear of failing at something do we decide not to even try, or to keep delaying? If we won't succeed, we may think we're not skilled in that area and might avoid it to protect our self-esteem. We always want to feel comfortable an
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What does it take to be happy? 

Sometimes it's scary to go and get what we need to be happy. Sometimes it's really frightening to stop and admit that we know exactly what we need to be happy. 

 Today someone, a friend, said this phrase to me: 'I am telling you this because I want you to be happy', talking to me precisely about 'that question' that I keep putting off, the one on which so many emotions come into play, but also so much happiness if I faced it.

Sometimes we need the words of others to be able to see what we don't see ourselves or what we tend to hide. And so today I'm so grateful for having had that coffee and having to broach that difficult topic during a light, catch-up chat with a dear friend.

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