Let’s talk about the F bomb. Failure. At some point in everyone’s life they have experienced it and no matter what it was, the ordeal wasn’t enjoyable. Yet despite the frequency of such situations the opportunities that follow are rarely mentioned. When examined closely it becomes obvious that failure is simply the mask of success. One example of challenge to triumph is Michael Jordan. As a sophomore in high school he was cut from the varsity basketball team. At the time it may have been humiliating, but that painful rejection caused Michael to work harder than ever before. According to Ruby Smith, a physical education teacher at the same high school, “I normally got to school between 7 and 7:30. Michael would be at school before I would.
