Articles That Encourage Success In America

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These articles encourage success in many different ways, yet they all conclude that the one idea is that you can be successful whenever, however, and to keep trying whether or not you fail. They taught me that I could do great things no matter what people say about me. That I should continue to try and build on my failures until I come up with a success. It taught me that I should keep trying, exploring, and making up ways to improve the society around me. One article called “Are You a Loser?” taught me the value of trying again if you don't succeed the first time. On the first page underneath the title, it states, “...studies show that to be a success, first you need to know how to fail.” I interpreted that quote as, whenever you fail,

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