A Little Self-Improvement from the Master and Others

From a WSJ article about getting rejected from your first choice college:

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life...that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better," Mr. Buffett says. With the exception of health problems, he says, setbacks teach "lessons that carry you along. You learn that a temporary defeat is not a permanent one. In the end, it can be an opportunity."

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[NateCarrFan]

Of course, you'd also expect that a man with a net worth several hundred thousand times that of your average citizen would have been more likely to have crushing events turn out well for him in the end.