What's new

Embracing Failure; Failure is your Friend in Disguise

Anything related to matters of the mind

Welcome to the only entrepreneur forum dedicated to building life-changing wealth.

Build a Fastlane business. Earn real financial freedom. Live your best life.

Tired of paying for dead communities hosted by absent gurus who don't have time for you?

Imagine having a multi-millionaire mentor by your side EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has been a cornerstone of Fastlane, actively contributing on over 99% of days—99.92% to be exact! With more than 39,000 game-changing posts, he's dedicated to helping entrepreneurs achieve their freedom. Join a thriving community of over 90,000 members and access a vast library of over 1,000,000 posts from entrepreneurs around the globe.

Forum membership removes this block.

CosmicMind

Saturn Sedan and PT Cruiser enthusiast.
FASTLANE INSIDER
EPIC CONTRIBUTOR
LEGACY MEMBER
MEMBER
Read Rat-Race Escape!
Read Unscripted!
Joined
Jan 10, 2012
Messages
2,769
Location
San Diego, CA
Rep Bank
$4,370
User Power: 203%
Ok so we all have failed at something in some point in our lives. Totally normal. And some of us WILL fail through out our Fastlane journey. Totally normal and OK again. Well i'm here to argue that that is actually a GOOD thing. Well sort of. Only if you embrace failure and approach it/ interpret it in a way most people DON'T.

Heres how failure should NOT be interpreted:
  • I'm inadequate; i'm just not a good enough entrepreneur.
  • It's the markets fault. It's their fault it didn't work. Curse them.
  • I knew I could never do anything right(confidence takes a nose dive).
  • It's Joe Blows fault it didn't work! Not my fault!
  • I will just forget about this failure and pretend it didn't happen.

Notice what all of these statements have in common? They are all SUBJECTIVE and EMOTIONAL non-sense.

Heres how failure SHOULD be interpreted:
  • Something went wrong during my execution. What is it? And Why?
  • Failure is a result of Scientific Fastlane error.
  • Failure gives me a deeper insight into the workings of the market; which turns out to be gold in my next ventures.
  • Failure lets me grow my understanding of entrepreneurship; no failure= no growth/progress in mindset.
  • Failure doesn't mean failure it just means what I have been doing doesn't work or is faulty.

Notice what all of these have in common? They are all OBJECTIVE and UN-EMOTIONAL and SCIENTIFIC.

Your success in the Fastlane is DEPENDENT on how you interpret and approach failure.

Failure lets me GROW into a SUPER STAR Entrepreneur. It reveals to me new secrets about the market place and also about execution.

Just like edison said: you didn't fail 10,000 times you just found 10,000 ways that didn't work.

How are you approaching failure? Is that holding you back?

Your turn folks. What are your ideas/ beliefs on failure?
 
Access Restricted: Unlock 1,000,000+ Posts

Stop Peeking Through the Keyhole.
Open the Door.

You hit a wall because the best advice isn't free—it's earned. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has been active here daily (99.9% active rate), building a war room for entrepreneurs who refuse to settle for mediocrity.

  • Active Daily: Life-changing content posted dozens of times every day. No dead threads.
  • MJ's Inner Circle: Direct access to the author of The Millionaire Fastlane.
  • Vetted Network: Connect with founders scaling to 7 and 8 figures.
  • Proven Roadmaps: Strategy over motivation. Execution over "hustle porn."
"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
"Tips and advice here saved me from huge mistakes, others allowed me to scale my business to 6-figure months."
— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
"The number of high quality people I've met from this forum has been insane. All of it predicated on building real value."
— User Richard Peck

"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
Are you surrounding yourself with success?

Jesfitv vjoph ecuav geomasi vu ni ot uvjis qiuqmi saccoph ov op nz gedi. O dep'v vimm og vjiz esi fuoph ov et e kuli us og vjiz vsamz epf jupitvmz xepv ni vu giim cef gus geomoph. Ov emnutv nelit vji suef puv xusvj vsewimoph up.

Vjip O siemobi vjev O'n puv vjin epf vjiz'si puv ni, tu vjios uqopoup cidunit opwemof. Cav, et vjiz vjsux vjios gidit op nz gedi, vjisi esi movvmi humfip pahhivt joffip op vji tjov. O gopf vji pahhivt vjip qav vjin op nz qudliv vu detj op xjip O taddiif.
 
O jiesf sidipvmz vjev e taddittgam qistup xuamf etl vjios loft iwisz fez, "xjev fof zua geom ev vufez?" Epf qseoti vjin gus vjios geomasit, viedjoph vjin vjev ov ot upmz vjsuahj xjev vji nettit demm "geomasi" vjev upi taddiift.

Ziv epuvjis iyenqmi ug xevdjoph xjev iwiszupi imti vjoplt/fuit epf fuoph/vjoploph vji uqqutovi.

Epzupi vjev xuamf tez e dsutt xusf vu tuniupi xju "geomif" figopovimz jet vjios uxp ottait vjev vjiz esi fiemoph xovj epf ofiemmz tjuamf ci fotnottif uav ug jepf.
 
Eddusfoph vu ni, Geomasi ot vji nuvowevoup vu xop epf e gostv tviq vu tadditt.
 
Access Restricted: Unlock 1,000,000+ Posts

Stop Peeking Through the Keyhole.
Open the Door.

You hit a wall because the best advice isn't free—it's earned. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has been active here daily (99.9% active rate), building a war room for entrepreneurs who refuse to settle for mediocrity.

  • Active Daily: Life-changing content posted dozens of times every day. No dead threads.
  • MJ's Inner Circle: Direct access to the author of The Millionaire Fastlane.
  • Vetted Network: Connect with founders scaling to 7 and 8 figures.
  • Proven Roadmaps: Strategy over motivation. Execution over "hustle porn."
"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
"Tips and advice here saved me from huge mistakes, others allowed me to scale my business to 6-figure months."
— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
"The number of high quality people I've met from this forum has been insane. All of it predicated on building real value."
— User Richard Peck

"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
Are you surrounding yourself with success?

Back
Top Bottom