What is Failure-Learning? How I learn things quickly without trying so damn hard

It feels pretty awesome to be good at things. It feels equally shitty to be bad at things. But being good doesn’t have to be that hard. It’s all in how you learn, not how hard you try.

Most people don’t have an easy time of trying new things, actually most people are terrified of trying new things (except for food, nearly everyone likes trying food), but I’ve found that a majority of the time this fear and self-doubt can be neutralized fairly easily. It’s called Failure-Learning and it’s kind of amazing.

So let’s skip doing a long intro and just get to the point…

Learn the pain points before anything else.

If I could make the above a bigger font, I would.

Here’s what I mean: When learning how to improve at anything it’s far more important to get past the pain points than it is to actually learn anything skill specific.

Let’s take surfing for example. Most people are taught surfing in this order: 1. learn how to paddle 2. learn how to pop up 3. learn how to balance.

Living in California, most of my friends have tried surfing. But, most have never tried it more than once, mostly because they got scarred shitless after one session…