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On Trent Grisham, Travis Shaw, and coping with very public failures

In a lot of ways, life is a constant lesson in dealing with failure.

We deal with various levels of disappointment every day, and how we learn from those micro-failures shapes how we respond the next time we’re confronted with those situations — and shapes who we are as people.

Maybe we don’t quite meet our boss’s expectations on a project. Maybe we fail to live up to a promise. Maybe we let down a significant other.

But in those times, rarely do we get yelled at by thousands of strangers who feel like they know us personally.