"I love a challenge."

Blatantly stolen from Boing Boing.
Why does failure inspire some and demoralize others?
Posted by Cory Doctorow, November 25, 2008 4:38 AM
Stanford Magazine reports on the applications from psychological research Carol Dweck's work, which uses careful experiments to determine why some people give up when confronted with failure, while others roll up their sleeves and dive in.

...[S]ome of the children who put forth lots of effort didn’t make attributions at all. These children didn’t think they were failing. Diener puts it this way: “Failure is information—we label it failure, but it’s more like, ‘This didn’t work, I’m a problem solver, and I’ll try something else.’” During one unforgettable moment, one boy—something of a poster child for the mastery-oriented type—faced his first stumper by pulling up his chair, rubbing his hands together, smacking his lips and announcing, “I love a challenge.”

- From The Effort Effect

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."

~Martin Luther King, Jr.