It really is better to fail than not to try, because if you never try, you'll never succeed, and as bad as failure feels, success feels so much better.
Ruth Westheimer
Trinity College Commencement, 2004, 2004
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Dr. Ruth connected this advice to the Yiddish concept of 'chutzpah' — the audacity to accept challenges even when you're shaking in your boots. She illustrated it with her own schedule that day: she had already committed to hosting a concert at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan with an Israeli cellist and an Israeli-Arab pianist. When Trinity asked her to speak at commencement on the same day, she could have declined. But in 'typical Westheimer fashion,' she said yes within a split second, at age 75, knowing she'd find a way to do both. Her life was proof of the principle: from Holocaust orphan to Swiss housekeeper to world-famous sex therapist, every leap forward had required accepting the risk of failure.
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