Fauilure is good..... No, Really!
Each of us began life as a clean slate without skill or ability. An inherent potential resonated within us. We were trained how to do something and we failed. We failed, and failed again until at last we succeeded. With every failure in this early period, we received encouragement to press on. To keep trying. To keep failing. The best example is learning to walk. Countless falls and bumps go by. Sometimes one on the heel of the other, and still we tried again. Somewhere along the way, failure became scary enough to stop our advances. The fear of failure stops us from ever trying again. I recently had this discussion with my daughter who was unwilling to go fishing with daddy because she fails. "Mommy," she told me, "I just fail. I don't like it." She had only been fishing a handful of times and was still working on a successful cast. I think she may have been using it as a plot to do something else, though i can't be cert...