Learning To Fail Better Than We’ve Ever Failed Before

We will always fail… and, as long as we don’t fail to learn, that’s fine.

Photo by Steve Halama

Rooted deeply in our souls, spread across society, is this irrational aversion to failure.

And yet, we fail all the time. We make mistakes, we miss appointments, we forget things, we lose games… almost every day. Somehow, though, we’re so scared of losing that we deny we ever have. Denial is stage one in any journey of recovery, but when it comes to failure, we linger there, stuck, playing the same way because we tell ourselves we didn’t lose every time we did.

If failure is so commonplace, denying failure is madness. It would be like swearing to never love again because our heart got broken. Well, chances are it will break again. Just as it will mend. And, hopefully, every new relationship will be better than the one before… but that can only be the case if we learn.

Learning is the antidote to our fear of failure.

We are all winners; we were born, for goodness sake! What are the odds of that? Of that spermatozoon to get to that egg. We are all winners just like we are all losers. And if we learn every time we lose, we will win more. Let us not dwell in defeat, let us learn from it and bounce back instead. We’re here to sometimes win and sometimes lose, but we’re here to always learn.

Learning is constant because failing isn’t final.