Failure precedes success.
Superstitions take over behaviour because our brains try and repeat whatever actions precede success, even if we cannot see how they have had their influence.
"If they're lucky they'll have a teacher or a friend who perceives their desire and talent and keeps them going during the long dark days of failure that inevitably preceded success.
Four years later, in the final in Sydney, there was an early glimpse of the 19-year-old Samuel Eto'o, who scored one of Cameroon's two goals against the Spain of Carles Puyol and Xavi Hernández, a 2-2 draw preceding African success in the shoot-out.
The free-riders always stayed regardless of the result of the preceding trial (success: 100% stay; failure: Z = 4.187, p<0.001), even though they had no chance of earning more than the cooperator, according to the rule of the condition.
"Strike and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary," said the actor, who won for best actor in a supporting role in a series at Sunday's ceremony, while the show netted the award for best television series (drama).
Happiness and health precede success, and as long as we can instill our children with the right habits to be both happy and healthy, we're already providing them a foundation for success.
Yet the three successive defeats that preceded that success condemned the Red Devils to an early exit from the FA Cup, gave them a first-leg deficit to overcome in a Capital One Cup semi-final tussle with Sunderland and left them with ground to make up just to claim a place in next season's Champions League.
He had to be to endure the years of fieldwork, including recurring malarial fevers, that preceded his success in 1892.
