HOW TO BE a failure. “I fail all the time, so often that I am somewhat mystified when I get emails in which people perceive me as successful. Because most of the time, I think of myself as a failure. Which, I’ve come to think, is part of what makes me successful. . . . I get emails every week from young men and women who say they want to be a blogger or say they want to be a journalist, but all I want to know is, are they acting like one? Because there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be.”