Fail, Quit, Lose: The Danger In Glorifying Failure (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

When you have a dream — your own business, a great marriage, a career as an artist or an athlete — and you try for the dream but don’t reach it, we call that failure. It hurts, failure. On the other hands. in places like Silicon Valley, failure is seen as good. It’s practically a fetish, where never failing suggests you’re not trying hard enough. And yet it seems only the winners preach that lesson. Are there times when giving up the dream makes the most sense? This hour On Point: failing — how we handle not getting what we want.
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/08/05/epic-fail-how-to-lose-quitting