Failure liberates you

Those varied backgrounds enriched them as new journalist and enriched me as their professor/editor. New to the field, they brought a walk-through-fire work ethic and a willingness to fail, understanding that failure is the necessary precondition to success.

Failure liberates you; it liberates you from the fear of failure; it liberates you from the delusion you can somehow be flawless.

Samuel Freedman, Letters to a Young Journalist, p.140-141.