"We push the limits of what is possible, and enjoy the failures," Mr. Pettis said.
And while real-world consequences make it hard to enjoy the failures of world leaders or those who hold the fates of thousands in their hands, Succession doesn't burden us with any actual fallout.
Feeling somewhat special and unique helps us persist in the face of failure, enjoy giving and receiving in relationships, and press on in pursuit of our grand dreams.
No wonder readers so enjoy the wimps, failures, dorks and the rest.
While many women did want to take advantage of the new paths available to them and become scientists or CEO's, many did not, and they didn't enjoy feeling like failures simply because they chose to be stay-at-home moms or strippers or whatever.
I suppose I take the view that the greatest enemy is boredom and idleness, and you have to risk failure to enjoy success".
The other two adverts feature Gandhi leaving his career as a barrister to lead India to independence, and Steve Jobs springing back from failure to enjoy huge success with Apple.
In this atmosphere, ethnic jokes serve as a safety valve; failure to enjoy them is viewed as "a shortcoming in a man's character," said Mr. Magomedkhanov, whose scholarly works include "Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Dagestan".
This might be because we enjoy the comedy of failure and self-deprecation, and find it hard to imagine that very good-looking people would share our own anxieties and insecurities.
Hochschild's big contribution here, though, is to tally the subtler costs of outsourcing: the "depersonalization of our bonds with others," the failure to enjoy the process of finding love or planning a wedding, the missing out on one's children's childhoods — all the little nontragedies that add up to a thinner, sadder life.
