Even today, most people fear failure. As a result, they are reluctant to try new things. This is unfortunate because failure is the only truly good teacher–we learn nothing from our successes. The most direct route to success is to try something, fail, learn from the failure and keep trying again and again until you succeed. Alexis Ohanian, cofounder of Reddit, the social news and entertainment web site put it this way in a recent article he wrote for USA Today, “True failure is simply giving up and not trying again. To quote Jake, a cartoon dog from Adventure Time, ‘Dude, suckin’ at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.'” What this means is that failure is not something that should be feared because without it, there is no success.