Embrace Failure Like You Embrace Doing What Sucks
Because failure, like broccoli, is damn good for you.
“If you never fail, you’re only trying things that are too easy and playing far below your level… If you can’t remember any time in the last six months when you failed, you aren’t trying to do difficult enough things.” ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, via MoveMe Quotes
Failure sucks
Let’s get that out of the way right from the get go. It would be naive and hypocritical of me to say otherwise. Because I know the feeling of failure… and it sucks.
But, so do most other things in life that are damn good for you. Working out sucks; eating broccoli sucks; disconnecting from news and social media sucks; reading personal growth books sucks; meditating sucks—until it doesn’t.
Have you ever regretted a workout that you completed? I haven’t. Have you ever regretted eating broccoli? Disconnecting from your TV or your phone? Reading that personal growth book? Meditating? I can’t think of a single time when I’ve heard someone say they have.
We don’t regret doing things that were done for our future selves.
We only usually regret doing things that were done short-sightedly for our past selves—the things we did to appease our short-term…
