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I had failed on an epic scale.

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An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded...

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And I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britian...without being homeless.

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Life is difficult,

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and complicated,

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and beyond anyone's total control.

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And the humility to know that, will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

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Simply because failure meant a 'stripping away' of the inessential.

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I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything, other than what I was.

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And began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

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Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination,

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to succeed in the one arena, where I believed I truly belonged.

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I was set free.

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Because my greatest fear had been realised...

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and I was still alive,

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and I still had a daughter whom I adored,

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and I had an old typewriter and a BIG idea.

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And so 'rock bottom' became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

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Leonardo DiCaprio(Inception [2010]):

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Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate.

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An idea that is fully formed, fully understood...

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J.K.Rowling: I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever,

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was write novels.

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The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks,

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means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

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You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

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Such knowledge is a true gift and for all that it is painfully won.

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'Rock bottom' wasn't fun.

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At all.

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I'm not going to romanticize 'rock bottom', but...

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it was liberating.

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What did I have to lose?

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You might never fail on the scale I did.

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But some failure in life is inevitable.

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It is impossible to live without failing at something...

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unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all.

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In which case, you fail by default.

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As is a tale, so is life.

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Not how long it is...

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But how good it is, is what matters.

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