Lessons In Conquering Failure From Abraham Lincoln
3 min readMay 31, 2019
As a young man, Abraham Lincoln wanted nothing more than “to link his name with something that would redound [contribute] to the interest of his fellow man.”
His biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin explains how Lincoln aspired to achieve this ambition in public office.
From 1834 to 1840, he served as a congressman in the Illinois Legislature. There…
