I’m in recovery. No, I’ve not had an illness. I’ve failed.
First, it’s important to understand a little about me when I was growing up. I never failed. This was not because I was ultra-capable or ultra-talented. It was because I (subconsciously) avoided failure.
I’d throw in the towel early so that I could always say “I never really tried”. It took until my early twenties before I realised that avoiding failure had become more important to me than achieving success.
Failing Magnificently - Tweak Your Biz
Posted by nialldevitt under Self-DevelopmentFrom http://tweakyourbiz.com 3401 days ago
Made Hot by: kingofcontent92 on January 6, 2015 5:54 am
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3398 days ago
I have no empirical data to support this. (Maybe others in the BizSugar community do?) But I suspect those who have become successful after repeated failure are somehow better at gaining insight from the experience. So it's not just failure (many fail and don't recover) but the reaction to that failure that is an important part of the equation. Learning the right lessons from failure is the real key.
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