I don’t disagree in the arena of continual misfortune.

Some people are attracted to failure like flies to almost everything.

But I believe in both success and failure there is an element of luck (or good fortune), and it is worth staying humble to enable detection of both.

I believe genes and being a member of the “lucky sperm club” LSC - is often disregarded. It is easier to fail if you have no role model. And easier to succeed when you are born into the ‘right’ environment.

I have seen it repeatedly in Africa. Filling your belly today, instead of saving for tomorrow is a result of always going hungry.

It’s hard to plan for the future when your future is the next meal.

Perhaps we could agree that we retain a sceptical open mindedness.

A single failure or success is not the yardstick. It’s when it is repeated that we can and should identify it’s intentionality.

And I respect failure when limited by compartmentalising it, instead of allowing it to bring the house down.

That way we can at least have pushed boundaries and tried new things.

Safety and security are a curse as much as failure is.

I often tell my staff we should consider what we could have achieved just as much as we celebrate a success. Some people consider a tablespoon of honey a success when there is an entire beehive.

Which leads to a longer discussion about greed. But we must be careful not to celebrate a tablespoon of honey without considering the beehive.

Opportunity knocks. But sometimes we only allow a toe to enter and the bulk of the body dies of frostbite behind the tightly shut door.

I’m rambling … but you get my drift, I’m sure.

Lovely to hear from you. Forgive me but I am trying to still read those I follow, which includes you, but it isn’t easy with all that’s on my plate right now.

It should diminish in the next 30-60 days.