“Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.”
THOMAS WAYNE, BATMAN BEGINS
Read that quote again, but this time with an emphasis on the word – learn.
Go ahead, I’ll wait…
Learning, at a very high level, is a collection of your failures and I hope you fail, alot!
I’ve been rooting for all of your failures for the last 13+ years and they mean the world to me…
You probably don’t remember your first steps but I do. They were fraught with failure and more determination to overcome each fall with better balance along with a subconscious checklist of what worked and what didn’t.
For most, failure becomes a thing to avoid. When in reality the fear of failure is typically greater than the failure itself. Failure will hurt, just not as bad as you might think. Learning how to navigate those fears and continuing to fail in new ways will accelerate your growth.
Test → Fail → Learn → Improve → Repeat
Embrace your mistakes. Get better at reflecting on those mistakes and asking yourself what you learned. The value of failing is learning.