How to Become Great at Failing; A Series
Hello Friends,
Everyone talks about how to succeed, but I want to share with you something much more important than that; I want to talk about how to become great at failing! I know that sounds crazy. I don’t mean I want to coach you through how to fail something like a math test, by not studying or making any effort at all. I am talking about the most difficult failures, the ones that hit the hardest. The things you want so badly it hurts, you do everything in your power to achieve them, and despite your best efforts, you still fail. These are the failures that get us down and humble us like nothing else can. These experiences can make us feel vulnerable, weak, and hopeless. They make us question why we even tried in the first place. I am no stranger to these kinds of failures and I hope my experiences and sharing what works for me helps you.
I want to help you become great at these failures by overcoming them and having the courage to try again. I’m talking about building grit and resilience. I hope I can help you be like Thomas Edison. Edison tried and failed over 10,000 times to make the filament lightbulb. When he was asked about all of those failures, he said he hadn’t failed 10,000 times, rather he had discovered over 10,000 ways not to make a lightbulb, but he only needed to find one to make it work. How amazing right? That determination to keep going, to not give up despite how frustrated, overwhelmed, and discouraged you become in the process, that is amazing!
I am going to be breaking this series down into 7 parts:
1. How to prepare emotionally if something will have a large impact on you if you fail. Just the prospect of failing can be paralyzing and prevent you from trying, so let’s start by helping you overcome that first hurdle.
2. What to do when failure happens, how to cope with it immediately.
3. How to move past coping to considering trying again.
4. Revisiting your failure to gain some insight about what might have gone wrong. Don’t over analyze here, we’re looking for ways to improve, not picking ourselves apart.
5. How to ask for constructive criticism from a friend to gain more insights from an outsider’s perspective. Sometimes this can be very helpful.
6. Making a plan to try again.
7. How to try again knowing that you might fail again.
I hope that this series helps you and perhaps keeps you entertained along the way. Together I hope we can regain the seemingly lost art of failure so that we can become great and achieve all of our dreams. Don’t hesitate to comment if you have tips to help or encourage others as well. I am very excited, and I hope you like it!
Your Friend,
Amanda
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