Curiosity Chronicle

How to Use Failure to Succeed

Jul 3, 2024 · 6 min · Episode 227 · 6.5 MB
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Here's an interesting thought: Failure is a skill. But unfortunately, failure is not a skill that any of us learn to develop in school. In fact, people who are high achievers throughout their school years are often the worst at failure in early adulthood, because they've never had to contend with it.

The system I developed to fail better—to handle, deconstruct, and use every single failure to set the conditions for future success: (1) Set a failure timer, (2) Become a scientist, (3) Time travel to the future, and (4) Take action.

Your entire life will change the moment you stop fearing failure as a foe and start embracing failure as a friend.