If you try to fail and succeed, what have you done?
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Its meaningless because its recursive, never ends and is just the continual switching between two values. Its the same as asking what does E (-1)^n as n goes from zero to infinity converges to. Its a geometric series, E A*r^n; in order to converge |r| has to be < 1. If you try to fail and succeed at something, you failed at failing that something, and succeeded at that something. You both failed and succeed, but with two different things. Side: Neither
For this kind of question, step back and do not take the statement at face-value. It depends on why do u want to fail. If you try to fail for e.g. to save someone the humiliation, u have succeeded as it is for a good cause. But if u try to fail just for the sake of fun, as a meaningless act, then you have failed in life! Side: Neither
If you try to fail and succeed, that means you have succeeded in the attempt to fail. But in a sense you have also had success – by eventually failing. Basically, I agree with DaWolfman that it is a paradox. The way up and the way down are one and the same T.S. Eliot 1897-1962 But this eventually is based on context or the situation you are in. For example, if you must fail, you have succeeded. However, if you will fail for a lame reason, you have indeed failed. Side: Neither
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