My six-year-old daughter loves to jump off things. “Dad! Watch this!” she’ll say as she climbs onto something just so she can leap off it.

41,945 people in 2000.42,196 people in 2001.43,005 people in 2002.

In last Friday’s email, I said, “Unrecognized risk gets most of the attention, but believing in a risk that isn’t real is equally dangerous and often more damaging.”

There's a maxim that says "Make people believe they're thinking and they'll love you. Make them actually think and they'll hate you."

• A failed effort will always lead to something valuable if you let it.
• Avoiding failure is the most common act of the unsuccessful.
• Some of the most important lessons you still need to learn can only come from failed efforts.
• An effort that leads to failure is more valuable than a non-effort that...

The risk of failure is always present.

You heard yesterday’s message, right?If you want to swim, you have to get in the water.

You can’t learn to swim from outside the water. It doesn’t matter what you know, who teaches you, or what techniques you analyze. If you want to learn how to swim, you have to get in the water.

You are not what you think you are.