One of my early ski coaches used to say, "If you never fall down, you're not going fast enough". True words that have encouraged me, even thirty years later, to push my life experience beyond what I already know, even at the risk temporary failure. Today, thanks to John Schneider, comes this great video that got me thinking again about the important role failure plays in success:
Some level of failure is always guaranteed because assumptions are often wrong, context is always changing, people make mistakes, and nothing is ever perfect. Yet a surprising number of corporations and people live life as if failure must be avoided at all cost. This is unrealistic and a huge impediment to personal and corporate growth. I think it better to reverse the equation, to say success must be secured at all cost, and that means we're going to have to embrace our failures and learn from them along the way.
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