Striving and Failure

People hate failure, and yet striving to do something at the edge or beyond your ability will lead often to failure.

I do not mean failing to care for your own basic needs and eventually the needs of others. Striving is more than surviving.

Striving means pursuing something worthwhile, with certainty about its value but uncertainty about its achievement. You have some certainty about what needs to be done but uncertainty about whether your performance will measure up or about whether something out of your control will scuttle your project.

But you wouldn’t want to miss the opportunity to pursue it, so you choose to strive.