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Continuing our little series on the science of courage, how about some more wisdom from Robert Biswas-Diener?   In The Courage Quotient, he tells us: “Herein lies the intervention related to failure: accept it. We modern people have fallen in love with the idea that we are in control of our lives, and this worldview gives rise to an impulse to resist failure, to fight against the very notion of it. But just like the modern trend to defy age, the battle against failure is a lost cause. Failure is inevitable. We all experience it, in forms large and small. It is in your past and it is in your future. People with a high courage quotient understand that failure is a risk much of the time and unavoidable some of the time. Rather than trying to tiptoe around failure, they simply accept it as part of the process of success.”   That’s from a chapter called “Be Willing to Fail.”   It’s packed with powerful, practical wisdom.   Like this: “Failure is a fantastic learning opportunity. Think of every time y