There’s little tolerance for experimenting, exploring different avenues, taking risks and figuring things out along the way.īut the cultural perception of failure is shifting around the world. Then, when we enter high school, we’re suddenly expected to know what we want to do for the rest of our lives. But as we go through life, and we fail our first test or find out we didn’t get the role we wanted in the school play, we learn very quickly that wins are celebrated, not losses. If we fall while learning to walk, we shake it off and get right back up. Our resilience for failure is at an all-time high when we’re in diapers. If you ridiculed yourself enough and felt enough shame, you’d be motivated to succeed, right?īut, we haven’t always been risk-averse.
We learn this from our parents when we get a bad grade, our teachers when we don’t know the answer to a question, our peers when we get bullied, our sports teams when they lose a game… Failure is something that’s used to fuel success. Because always succeeding is like… really boring.įrom a young age, we’re taught that failure is unacceptable and inherently bad.
This week on, we’re looking failure in the eye and making a vow to Fail Fearlessly this year-and beyond. There has to be a better way to cope, right? Not only does this method make you feel even shittier, it doesn’t prevent you from making the same failure again in the future. Whatever the failure is, our first instinct is to crawl into a hole of self pity and only return to the real world after we’ve beaten ourselves up enough times. Maybe your business failed, or you got fired.
Maybe you tanked an important job interview, or accidentally sent a NSFW email that was meant for your work BFF to the whole company.
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