Failure will teach you things that you can learn no place else. How else will you know yourself or the strength of your friendships until both have been tested by adversity?
Jonathan Youshaei
Deerfield High School Commencement 2009, 2009
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Youshaei challenged the stigma that society attaches to failure, arguing that when we see successful people, we see what's close to a finished product — we don't see the countless missed shots or the numerous ruined soufflés that preceded mastery. He offered a memorable paradox: if you live your life so carefully that you avoid all failure, then you have already failed. But his most powerful insight was that failure reveals things about yourself that success never can — your work ethic, your willpower, your 'extra gear,' and the strength of your friendships. Only adversity can test these qualities, which means that avoiding failure means never truly knowing yourself. It was a remarkably mature perspective for an eighteen-year-old speaker, and it gave his classmates permission to embrace the uncertainty ahead of them.
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