Can Failure Help In Our Spiritual Development?

I, like many others, have aways avoided doing something “stupid”, deemed as a failure.  At the San Francisco Book Festival May 18th, the overall book winner, “The Power of Starting Something Stupid” by Richie Norton, pointed out our need to fail before we can be successful.  We need to develop “failure tolerance”, to get into the habit of seeing failure as a means to an end and not the end itself – both spiritually and in business.  We need to get back on that horse that has bucked us off to move forward on our journey, whether it is in business or personal growth.