You Are Not Your Own Substack

You Are Not Your Own Substack

On Failure

Nobody likes to fail and everyone does it

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O. Alan Noble
Mar 21, 2025
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A remarkable thing about failure is we never stop failing in life. You may master one skill or overcome one besetting sin, but you’ll just find something else to fail at. You learn to speak French fluently but you forget your wife’s birthday. You exercise three times a week but you don’t read your bible or pray. You study …

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