If success is having overcome the shackles of failure and, as such, is its own reward, perhaps what we should be celebrating and focussing our attention on is intelligent risk taking. Likewise, assessment would be better directed towards evaluating the nature of the risks taken and the quality of failure as opposed to the minutiae of levels of achievement. In some ways it amounts to the same thing, though with an entirely different focus. Instead of centring so much attention on becoming the best, perhaps the emphasis would be better placed upon celebrating the striving to become even better, and that’s a goal to which everyone can relate.
A pregnant Lesley breaking trail on one of the most exhausting climbs I have ever undertaken.
