Regardless how prepared we are, how hard we work, and how talented and confident we are, we are going to fail some times. The important thing is not to be afraid of failure. After all, it is better to do something and fail than to not have done anything at all. Thus, it is critically important that we change our attitude towards failure. One must look at failure as great opportunity for learning. The following story demonstrates exactly what is meant here: A promising junior executive of IBM was involved in a loss of over $10 million in a business transaction. It was a disaster. When his boss called the nervous executive into his office, the young man blurted out, “I guess you want my resignation?” His boss said, “You can’t be serious. We’ve just spent $10 million educating you!”