Embracing failure is the only way towards success; every successful entrepreneur will tell you this. It will feel like shit while you build those callousses, but it WILL incrementally improve your chances of success in the long run. It’s the only way any of us learn, so you can adjust your approach and try again.
The delta between innovators and normies is that the innovators embrace failing as simply something that has to happen. Imagine playing a game where you waltz to victory w/o failing once. You will be bored AND you will feel like you never even won. What does one do when you fail in a game? you feel like shit, curse for a bit, regroup, and try again. Life is no different; the finish line is just blurry and ever changing.
It’s easy to get discouraged when you fail over and over again. This is when it’s time to take a step back and ask yourself: “Do I want to spend my life failing at something else instead”, because failing is NOT a negative => it is an unavoidable constant that you have to learn to accept!
As you learn to embrace failure, you’ll undoubtedly become an optimist. You’ll learn to appreciate incremental gains. You might even become easily amused! I promise you, you’ll be a more well-balanced individual for it.
- Don’t let your failures go to waste. Fell and appreciate the suffering. Then reset and ask yourself why. It’s failing the exact same way the second time that makes people look at you like you’re an idiot.
- Identify your weakness and weakness fixers
- Come up with multiple solutions/approaches if you were to do it over again
- Mentally wipe the feeling of failing and replace it with the feeling of excitement that you just learned something new
- Every time you fail, mentally mark it down as a +1 for your resilience meter
- Nothing good in life is a certainty. Use both your failures and success to build mental models of probability calculations so you get more accurate about your understanding and chance of failure to success ratios. Normies call that street smarts.
- Learn to respect other people who are willing to take risks and accept failures. Pity the ones that don’t [just kidding!(kind of)].