I’m no stranger to the unexpected in our shop, so thinking about this topic made me consider what positives we learn from situations we probably wouldn’t have chosen. 

As a teenager, Garrod Massey had a passion for electronics, even building his own guitar system out of a telephone. Classes in high school included electronics and robotics, but post-high school, Garrod found himself in a job that he didn’t like: appliance delivery for a large home improvement store.

The ability to "fail upward" is what I believe many extraordinary people have in common. I explained it this way to my son after a recent soccer loss. I said, "You lost today, but what did you learn from it?"

I was driving the other night and noticed several cars with headlights out. That there were multiple cars with only one headlight working really got me thinking.