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You NEVER failed. Not ONCE

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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So there's a famous quote of Thomas Edison who said when he was asked by a reporter when he finally invented the light bulb because he had experimented for years and he had tried hundreds of experiments and they all failed. And Edison was asked by a reporter what does it feel like to have failed hundreds of times before you finally invented the light bulb. And he said I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just had a hundred steps to the process. If you live your life and you realize I never failed once. These aren't failures. You can fail forward. You don't lose, you learn. Then you realize, not, Hashem, I'm so bitter and resentful and angry. Why am I going from job to job? Why have I had to go out with 50 different men or 50 different women? Hashem, why am I trying all these medications or lifestyle changes? Why isn't this shot working for me and I have to try another one? You don't look at each one of them as a failure. You don't look at each one of them as losing. You don't look at each one of them as Hashem, why are you doing this to me? But why are you doing this for