Failure Required

Resilience is a word that comes to mind when discussing success. All masters at one point were the apprentice. So why are masters so successful in their practice? They failed the most. The most learning comes in doing. In doing something you have never done before, failure is inevitable. How you perceive that failure is crucial to your path. Resilience is the ability to, well, do exactly what is preached daily here. You must learn and grow from your failures. You fail, then you get back up and get after it. Never fold. Never give up. Never quit. These are all easy ways out. Again, like before, nothing good comes easy. The hard thing to do when you fail is try again. It’s hard to fall flat on your face and get back up and say let’s do it again. Why is this important? It is the fundamental factor regarding success or failure. Because like I said before, failure is only learning. Unless you quit, you truly never fail.

Short term doing what is easy will allow you to make small leaps and strides further along in whatever it is you are doing. Whether it be a sport or a new skill or even cleaning your room. It’s easy to do what you’re good at or do the bare minimum. Both of these allow you to feel like you did something. In reality, you’re just as far from your goal as when you started. These things combined with avoidance of what’s difficult or what you might not be so good at is what keeps people stagnant. Have you ever noticed when faced with a difficult task, you decide to do things you wouldn’t normally do if you didn’t have anything to do? When you have a big paper due tomorrow, you decide now you want to clean your room. You find things that you don’t want to do but are easier than the main thing you are avoiding. You should always tackle this thing head on. Get it done. Stop distracting and start acting. Be resilient. Fail as much and as hard as you can. Then get back up and do it again. And again. Don’t allow yourself the easy way out. Push through and be great. To be in the top 1%, you have to do what 99% of people didn’t want to do.