Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Socrates on success and failure


Not that I’m a great expert on the man, but I like the summary of Socrates on the subject of success and failure in Peter Stothard’s recent book On the Spartacus Road:

“Failure was so often better than success; there was so much more to be learnt from it.”

But only, of course, if one is looking. My experience of corporate behaviour is that people generally first look, then look away, then walk away.