Another Fucking Opportunity for Growth

This is one of those things that I have always done fairly well but until I read it in book (Connect), I didnt really know what I was doing. Celebrating failures. Trying hard things despite high risk of failure. Being suspicous about yourself if you havent really failed at anything for a really long time. All these things are very counter intuitive. Why would you celebrate your own failures? Why would you go looking for failures?

It turns out when you start accepting failures as a part of the process. As stepping stones to success thats truly when you start winning. The winners and champions, they know that failure isnt the end of the road. Its just an AFOG: Another fucking opportunity for growth. Its like life telling them that they arent ready yet, here are things that they need to do better and try again. So when you start treating failures as AFOG, you actually start listening. You get better. You get stronger. Like that classic line experience or failures are the best teacher.

Nothing ever worth achieving was achieved without a ton of failures along the way. Then why are you so entitled that you think you can achieve those things without any failures? What doesnt kill you should and will make you stronger. A strong corollary is that if you havent failed in a while that usually means you stopped trying. You arent pushing yourself hard enough. And you can do way better. And then when you arent afraid of failing, something magical happens. You arent afraid of taking risks. You arent afraid of the hard things. You push yourself out of the comfort zone. And that starts a very self reinforcing cycle of growth. Where you will eventually be capable of doing things you could never dream of. Of taking on things that were well beyond your horizon. And that sounds like a life worth living.