His reply was that he did not fail at all. But he did finally succeed. He took the challenge and never, ever gave up. Thomas Edison understood that one cannot fail unless one gives up. He understood the role of failure in achievement.
Failure is an intrinsic part of success.
In order to become someone we have never been, we will have to do something we have never done. If we have never done something, we don t know how to do it, naturally. Here is the story of young Jonathan. I used to be a school teacher. Jonathan was one of my pupils.