We all fail, all the time.我们都会经历失败,一直都会。We might miss a call with a client because of an emergency work meeting, or miss that meeting because another project has suddenly become urgent. And then we (or our families) get sick, and we have to shift priorities around again.我们可能会因为一次紧急会议而错过客户电话,也可能因为某个突如其来的项目错过一场会议。有时候自己或者家人生病了,也不得不将原定计划的优先顺序进行调整。These unsystematic failures are benign, though.然而,这些非系统性的失败其实是良性的。They reflect that all of us have limited resources. There simply is not enough time, energy, or money, to do everything you want to do all the time. Part of being a responsible adult is learning to make tradeoffs: balancing your conflicting goals and trying to get a
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