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Why Headspace Co-Founder Andy Puddicombe Doesn’t Subscribe to the Conventional Notion of Failure

By Andy Puddicome — 2018

It is impossible for every single thing to go as we would like it to first time around. This is not failure, this is learning, this is life.

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Liliana Flores
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