Am I A Failure?

from Call Me Tony · host AC Bergen-Fischer

Seven years ago I recorded a short podcast asking myself a difficult question: Am I a failure? Finding that old script forced me to confront a different question entirely. By what standard do we decide whether a person has succeeded or failed? In this episode I revisit that younger version of myself, not to correct him, but to understand him, and explore how my thinking has changed over the last seven years.

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Seven years after recording a podcast asking whether he was a failure, Tony revisits the script and discovers that what changed wasn't the answer, but the question. A reflective conversation about success, failure, growth, and the standards we use to judge a human life.