Now that's encouraging

I just finished Michael Cole's excellent book, Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline. For the last sentence of the book - and I don't think I give too much away here - he writes, "The failures are sure to outnumber the successes by a goodly margin, making it certain that you will never run out of interesting things to do."

I wonder how long I could keep committee members interested in my failures. On second thought, it's probably best not to push too hard on that limit.