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Why Failure Is Essential To Success
Failure is part of success; and if you never fail, you are likely not trying hard enough or you may be deceiving yourself.
To fail means you have reached for a new goal, and you can hone your approach for your next shot at it. To fail means you’ve had the opportunity to learn about the skills or capabilities you need to develop. And to fail means you have demonstrated commitment to something that matters to you.
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Avoiding Failure
Typically, failure is something people avoid. It can be painful, career-limiting, and disheartening. But failure can also deliver significant advantages—and contrary to common belief, you may reach your goals (or resolutions for the new year) more effectively when you find ways t...
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Begin with Clear Goals
It’s useful to embrace failure because you’ll stay motivated and increase your chances of reaching your aspirations—but your goal should still be to succeed.
There’s a subtle but important difference in how you think about what you’re pursuing. Particularly in a compet...
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Make Friends With Failure
- Let go of a sense of fear. Validate that your failure means you’re trying for something that matters to you.
- Focus on learning. If you never fail, you don’t have the opportunity to learn as deeply because you’ve succeeded, patted yourself on the back...
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Failure is inevitable
Years of planning and hard work are not enough to protect you from failure. A presentation can fail, a start-up can have a bumpy launch, a writer gets blocked. This disappointment can often prevent you from trying again.
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Failure Is An Opportunity To Learn
To get good at a game, you need to get to know the rules of the universe well and to develop the necessary skills. To do this, you need to fail many times.
Once you get into this mindset of “failure is merely a teaching tool,” you’ll start to apply it to other aspects of life without eve...
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