The Moral Vision
Accepting Defeat
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position? According to Dr Norman Vincent Peel, the
secret behind his success was that “he knew how to
accept defeat.”
The great secret of life is realism, and there is no
form of realism greater than accepting defeat. To do
so is to acknowledge the fact that, far from being
ahead of others, one is behind them. In other words,
it is to know where one stands in life. Once defeat is
accepted, one is immediately in a position to start
life’s journey afresh, for such a journey can only
commence from where one actually is; it cannot
start from a point that one has not yet reached.
