Thomas Edison tested 10,000 ways before the lightbulb worked. Rome fell not from losing battles but from numbing itself with decadence instead of learning from failure. The real danger isn't falling down. It's refusing to feel it.
Thomas Edison made this model the most simple way possible, and I quote, I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. With that being said, each waste was actually narrowing the path to success. Another amazing historical reference that I like to look at, and not only for this, but through many things throughout life. When societies collapse and there's failure amongst civilizations, there's many things that we can extract from that because why? Nothing is actually wasted. So when we look at the fall of Rome, it actually demonstrates what happened here. Because during the fall of Rome, yes, there's many things that attributed to it, but one of the main key characteristics was from internally because they stopped seeing failures or problems as lessons. In fact, they numbed any problems that they had during this era with decadence and indulgence. In fact, this era was often called bread and cruises.
The very thing that made Rome great was its ability to find lessons in hardship, which is something they left behind, which is one of the key factors that led them to becoming a weak civilization that shortly collapsed.
