David McRaney, tackling misconceptions about studying success:

The problem here is that you rarely take away from these inspirational figures advice on what not to do, on what you should avoid, and that’s because they don’t know. Information like that is lost along with the people who don’t make it out of bad situations or who don’t make it on the cover of business magazines – people who don’t get invited to speak at graduations and commencements and inaugurations.

This is a long read, but it’s particularly worthwhile for recent college graduates who are slowly making their way into the world. It’s easy to furiously soak up advice from people and companies we admire, but we often forget how much we can learn from failure—including our own.