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@@@@@Many people say that Pearl Harbor was an American mistakeI say it was a Japanese mistakeFrom the movie Tora, Tora, Tom, a somber Japanese admiral says to his cheering subordinates, "I am afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant "Remember Pearl Harbor" became a rallying cryIt turned one of America's greatest losses into the reason to winThis great defeat gave America strength, and America soon emerged as a world power Failure inspires winnersAnd failure defeats losersIt is the biggest secret of winners It's the secret that losers do not knowThe greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing Repeating Fran Tarkenton's quote, "Winning means being unafraid to lose People like Fran Tarkenton are not afraid of losing because they know who they areThey hate losing, so they know that losing will only inspire them to become betterThere is a big difference between hating losing and being afraid to loseMost people are so afraid of losing money that they loseThey go broke over a duplexFinancially they play life too safe and too smallThey buy big houses and big cars, but not big investmentsThe main reason that over 90 percent of the American public struggles financially is because they play not to loseThey don't play to win They go to their financial planners or accountants or stockbrokers and buy a balanced portfolioMost have lots of cash in CDs, low-yield bonds, mutual funds that can be traded within a mutual-fund family, and a few individual stocksIt is a safe and sensible portfolioBut it is not a winning portf