Failure is a good thing
Success is boring
First-time success is usually a fluke.
If it's your first time doing something you should expect to fail at least once
If you succeed on your first try it seems luck based as you don't know much about the thing you're doing
Success doesn't teach you anything
You can't learn from your mistakes when you haven't made any
You can't teach people how to avoid failure if you never experienced it
Failure is how you learn
The more you fail, the more you know about the thing you're failing
To fail: you have to do something, if you fail a lot that means you do a lot of what you're doing
Think of failing as practice
If you fail a lot you'll start learning from your mistakes
After failing a lot you will start learning how to NOT fail
If you never fail you will never know what causes failure
Failure gives you credibility
If you succeed in everything it wont seem believable
Sharing stories of your failures make you seem more 'human' and it may make people trust you more
Try your best
If you do a lot of something then there will always be a time where something would be 'the worst'
Ex. The guy in the essay talks about how he works on newspapers and he always has one newspaper that's worse than the other ones.
There will always be a best and worst despite how good or bad you are
Always do your best so even your 'worsts' are good
Since there's always a worse, you should make everything your best so that even your worse is your best (If that makes sense)
Although there would always be a worst, keep aiming for the top