Failure, success, faith and ego

When learning a craft, we start seeing tangible results after a period of dedication, and patience that changes depending on the intensity of our investment.
During that lenghty process, we experience ups and downs, we flirt with failure, we get wedded to it for a while, then we break up with it.
Failing publicly, and dealing with the shame and stigma associated with it, becomes part of the learning process.
We learn to live with a manhandled ego.
After dealing with our bouts of fustration, and lamentation in the darkness of our locked rooms, we must return to the task ready to try again.
The whole experience may sound masochist to some but it is the only way to get to a laudable goal.
Our strength comes from a deeply entrenched faith in our journey, as we see our goal already fulfilled despite the occasional failures.
To us, it is just a matter of time before our goals materialize before our eyes.
Our enthustic quest for improvement and knowledge should be selfless, free of any kind of boasting and preaching.  

Our impatience and our fear of failures that bruise our ego is the main barrier between us and our improved self.