Dear Strivers,

The things I really enjoy now–cooking, reading, writing, playing music–were really, really hard at the beginning. 

When you first play the guitar your fingers bleed and the sounds don’t sound like music. When you first start to cook the food is bad and you burn things and there’s always that fear that you might poison yourself. When you write, you have to get down a lot of bad stuff amidst the tiny percentage of good stuff. 

The key to success in all areas is exactly the same: failure followed by trying again and again. And even after you get pretty good at these things, the only way to get better is to keep failing.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck