# What do you attribute the biggest successes in your life to? How about your largest failures?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 10, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-attribute-the-biggest-successes-in-your-life-to-how-about-your-largest-failures/824307 "2018-11-10T17:12:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cathy967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Cathy967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cathy967)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-attribute-the-biggest-successes-in-your-life-to-how-about-your-largest-failures/824307/1 "2018-11-10T17:12:50Z")

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Pondering #3

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**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-attribute-the-biggest-successes-in-your-life-to-how-about-your-largest-failures/824307/2 "2018-11-10T18:59:36Z")

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I’m somewhat conflicted.

Biggest successes? Being more of a bird-in-hand type, rather than two-in-the-bush type. I’ll bet/wager/risk a small part of already disposable income for a potential gain, but never my livelihood, as I’ve seen some do.

Biggest failures? Not “putting myself out there” out the comfort zone more often.

Hence, the conflict.

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-attribute-the-biggest-successes-in-your-life-to-how-about-your-largest-failures/824307/3 "2018-11-10T19:00:30Z")

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**Mod Hat On**

Cathy967, we expect more effort when starting a thread. Brief OPs with no explanations don’t cut it.

Slow down, create fewer threads, but give more thought and attention into fleshing out the ones you do start.