The anchor of unshakeable human hopefulness.
Only the state of death or the state of perfection excuses anyone from it.
What it means ↓It is an intent, not a prescription. You are not the person who tried last time, and the world is not the world it was. So the question is never whether to try again, only how.
Use what you learned since the last try. Try smaller or larger, sooner or later, or return to what you tried before that. It is all on the table.
If you cannot find a better way, try again the same way. The river has moved on; the action that failed yesterday may break through today.
Every attempt, the same or new, is also a chance to explore. Seeking a better way is itself part of trying again.
You never try in the same river twice.
The water, the season, the people around you, and you yourself have all moved on since the last attempt. Trying again the same way is not stubbornness. It is playing your odds in a world that keeps changing.
Sub-goals come and go. The ultimate goal stays.
Hard goals demand focus and steadfastness, and that commitment builds inertia. We keep pushing toward a derived goal long after it stopped serving the goal it was meant to serve. That is where most of the juice of life is wasted.
Every sub-goal is a means, and means are negotiable in favor of the end. When trying again for a sub-goal conflicts with trying again for your deepest goal, choose the deepest goal. The real challenge, and the work of a lifetime, is to find that one goal worth trying for again and again.
Persistence without reason becomes obsession. Reason without persistence becomes resignation. Together they form a living guide anyone, anywhere, can follow.
Rationality acknowledges emotion; irrationality silences logic. Live rationally and you can harness your feelings. We may never fully reach that promised land, but we can come closer, and closer.
It is never so dark, so hopeless, as not to try again.
It is never so shiny, so perfect, as not to try again.
Every time you try again, you try differently,
because the world has moved on in between.
Every time you try again, you did not waste your time:
you played your odds.
If you are too weak to try again,
try again something you are strong enough to try.
If you can't decide what to try again,
try again to decide.
To live is to try again.
To try again is to live.
If this does not make sense to you, try again.
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Attributed to Confucius“Failure provides the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.”
Henry Ford“I don't believe I have special talents, I have persistence.”
Carlo Rubbia, Nobel laureate in physicsThe author of this page has guided countless individuals who lost the zeal to try again for something they truly believed in and desired.
This simple maxim, “Try Again,” lives in many stories, most of them encountered by the author, Professor Gideon Samid, over a long lifetime, across many continents, through war and peace, in comfort and in hardship. In sharing them, Gideon lifts the person he is talking with to a renewed resolve to try again.
I also give talks for groups and teams bonded by a mission, a shared goal, a common desire.
The greatest impact has come in projects of innovation, where innovators so often try and try again and fall short of what they are looking for. The extra push to try one more time, to try smarter, and to follow the guidance of InnovationSP.net, makes the winning difference.
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