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SALT LAKE CITY – If you want to succeed at anything, you have to have something that not many want to celebrate – the ability to embrace failure.

One aspect of sports that I’ve always been fascinated by is how – and why – some people seem to have an endless well of confidence.

Ok, maybe it’s not exactly confidence.

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But it’s some kind of belief in their dream combined with faith in their own abilities that allows them to wade into the uncomfortable, the unknown, the unbelievable.

I’ve watched it many times from the sideline of a high school track meet or a college football game. I’ve w

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