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A friend in a mastermind I am in posted the following YouTube video on motivation.
And here are the words I got the most from:
"I lot of people think that failure is a step backward. No no no no..
Failure is a step forward, a step forward in the right direction.
Every time you fail you learn something. You gain something from it.
You feel less anxiety when you are doing it again. You want to think that's a step backward?"
What resonated with me was the take on failure. The more you grow in your entrepreneurial endeavours the more you realise that failure is not something to be ashamed of but to be embraced.
If you are not failing in something then you are just playing it safe. Just not pushing hard enough. You have to understand that not pushing hard enough will result in it taking you a lot longing to get to where you want to be, or, for some not getting there at all.
The fear of failure is one of the hardest lessons for us to learn to overcome. The stigma that the 'uneducated world' spins on failure is what, in many people, creates the fear in the first place. People are more afraid of losing face than they are of actually failing. Their ultimate fear is being seen as a failure.
If you have this aversion to failure then you need to change your thought process. Don't set up a new business, set up a new experiment. If you share what you are doing with friends and family tell them you are running an experiment. The goal of the experiment is to collect data and compare the results of that data against a pre-determined projected outcome. At the end of the experiment it will either have had a positive or negative outcome.
This could be measured in many ways not just financial ones. I could set up a new experiment today but if it meant at the end of the experiment the data showed I was putting in 50 hours a week for $1000 of positive revenue then some would see that as success. However I might see this as a negative result if I were looking for $500 positive revenue for 10 hours of input per week.
However I have now collected enough data to run another experiment based on these results. I may decide that by outsourcing some of the processes created in the first experiment I could get closer to my $500/10h target.
This way you can detach yourself from the fear of failure. At the end of every experiment you focus on the results, be the outcome a positive or negative one. For you are just collecting data. Come up with another experiment you can run off the back of it and push forward.
So go out there as scientists and experiment never fearing failure only fearing no data and therefore no results.
And here are the words I got the most from:
"I lot of people think that failure is a step backward. No no no no..
Failure is a step forward, a step forward in the right direction.
Every time you fail you learn something. You gain something from it.
You feel less anxiety when you are doing it again. You want to think that's a step backward?"
What resonated with me was the take on failure. The more you grow in your entrepreneurial endeavours the more you realise that failure is not something to be ashamed of but to be embraced.
If you are not failing in something then you are just playing it safe. Just not pushing hard enough. You have to understand that not pushing hard enough will result in it taking you a lot longing to get to where you want to be, or, for some not getting there at all.
The fear of failure is one of the hardest lessons for us to learn to overcome. The stigma that the 'uneducated world' spins on failure is what, in many people, creates the fear in the first place. People are more afraid of losing face than they are of actually failing. Their ultimate fear is being seen as a failure.
If you have this aversion to failure then you need to change your thought process. Don't set up a new business, set up a new experiment. If you share what you are doing with friends and family tell them you are running an experiment. The goal of the experiment is to collect data and compare the results of that data against a pre-determined projected outcome. At the end of the experiment it will either have had a positive or negative outcome.
This could be measured in many ways not just financial ones. I could set up a new experiment today but if it meant at the end of the experiment the data showed I was putting in 50 hours a week for $1000 of positive revenue then some would see that as success. However I might see this as a negative result if I were looking for $500 positive revenue for 10 hours of input per week.
However I have now collected enough data to run another experiment based on these results. I may decide that by outsourcing some of the processes created in the first experiment I could get closer to my $500/10h target.
This way you can detach yourself from the fear of failure. At the end of every experiment you focus on the results, be the outcome a positive or negative one. For you are just collecting data. Come up with another experiment you can run off the back of it and push forward.
So go out there as scientists and experiment never fearing failure only fearing no data and therefore no results.
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