Most of us, if not all of us, have tasted failure in our lives.  We set a goal, we got excited about that goal, and then we failed or we didn’t meet our own expectations, and we gave up. But the problem wasn’t that the goal was too high, it’s that we didn’t expect to win in the first place.  As a society, we know failure inside and out.  We know pain, we know suffering, we know loss.  Very few actually know what it’s like to win, to achieve, to excel.

That’s why the media leads, follows, and counts on negative news to drive their ratings.  We know about pain and suffering because we have lived through pain and suffering. …