Most professional training programs stress the importance of self-confidence. Believe in yourself and you will succeed. But in some cases, the opposite is true. There are people whose success stems not from self- confidence but from feeling of failure. Feeling inadequate, they push themselves harder and harder, forcing themselves to achieve. In this way failure becomes, paradoxically, a source of success. At least this was the view of the writen and critic Edmund Wilson. As people driven to succeed by a sense of inadequacy and failure