When Elsa Einstein, Albert’s wife, was being shown around the Mount Wilson Observatory, she was told the telescope could reveal how powerful the universe was.  She laughed and said, “My husband does that on the back of an old envelope.” True. But the quote from Albert I like best is “A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new.”  The world moves forward, and upward, on great ideas.  Every one of the companies on the New York Stock Exchange started with an idea on the back of an envelope – or a napkin – and progressed from that slip of paper to desk blotter to a workbench in a garage and then into the mega marketplace. There were a lot of failures along the way. But, at the end of the day, what matter is the one success, not the hundreds of failures.  Anyone can fail; success comes from building on those failures.  So next time you fall flat on you face with an idea that didn’t quite make it, get back up and try again. At the very least, you know one thing that will not work.   [See my books at https://authormasterminds.com/master-of-the-impossible-crime.]