When I'm down on myself (whatever the reason), I determine to examine the past in order to glean nuggets of wisdom from mistakes and successes alike.
To very loosely paraphrase Tolstoy, all successes are alike, but each epic failure fails in its own unique way.
In places like Mazar-i-Sharif or Herat, the situation is certainly tense and difficult, but not hopeless; a well-planned deployment by ISAF could make all the difference.Lessons have been learned from other peacekeeping operations, from the Balkans to the Horn of Africa, successes and failures alike.
It is also worth regularly examining how the organisation manages change, and how it learns lessons from successes and failures alike.
As we strive to create great value from technology, we hope that others may learn from our successes and failures alike.
Other more conventional companies can learn from Uber's successes and missteps alike as more organizations will become more digital and share attributes with the ride-sharing firm in the years ahead.
So, in an effort to share any wisdom that I learned from my experiences, successes and failures alike, I've put together some suggestions for how science students can ensure a more efficient and productive Ph.D. experience.
"It is now clear that there is no single ideal AIDS program, and that each country must work out its own solution, building on strong local evidence and learning from successes and mistakes alike," said Joy Phumaphi, Vice President of the World Bank's Human Development Network, a former WHO Assistant Director General, and former Health Minister of Botswana, 1999-2003.
The family that surfs together, it seems, stays together, in poverty and success, wipeouts and comebacks alike.
Emblems alike of success and failure, of continuity and extinction, of weirdness and familiarity, they are fit objects on to which we can project all our manifold obsessions and concerns: as mutable and contradictory as human society itself.
