Fail Well
Yes—as an official member of the human race, you will spend most of your time failing. Sometimes it’s small. Sometimes it’s gigantic.
But there will only be one time that it will actually kill you.
So relax a little bit.
Understand that failure is the only way that Mother Nature can teach you the inadequacy of your approach and simultaneously place you in a classroom where you can learn to fare better with your second (or seventy-second) attempt.
We hate failure. It damages our ego—when really, it is our great “amigo.” It is our friend. It limits the amount of damage done in our lives if we’re willing to quickly acknowledge error instead of stubbornly and often angrily continuing to pursue a fruitless path. Two words must be learned:
Sustain or Complain
If you can sustain your abiding faith in the power of wisdom, the love of God and the practicality of effort, you can bounce off any failure, making it a rubber surface instead of finding yourself splatting against the concrete.
To achieve this, you must never complain.
Complaining is when we pretend that failure is unnecessary.
Complaining is when we tell everyone around us that life is not fair, when life itself often generates justice by seeming to be unfair but doing it to everyone.
If you can sustain your belief and refrain from complaining, you can attain your goal.
If you can’t, you will think of failure with words like:
- Unjust
- Cheating
- Cursed
- Or even Satan
So fail well.
Sustain the good parts, avoid the complaining, and you will live to succeed on another day.
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