How important is failure? If you had to hear it from the voices of many successful athletes, businessmen, and other high achievers out there, you would get the impression that failure, apart from being quite unavoidable, is a fundamental learning experience in life.

We've probably all been through failure, but is it really that central to your story? Do we risk losing a valuable lesson if we celebrate failure as such?

Join Leopold Ajami and Ricardo Pinto to have a wide-ranging conversation about failure, albeit from a largely unexplored perspective grounded in the lessons of philosophy.

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