The best growth comes from learning from things you fail at.

Here is today’s Game and what’s going on.

This is what I learned from Dave Hollis‘ book, Get Out of Your Own Way.

Today’s highlights and declaration come from the chapter titled “The Lie: Failure Means You’re Weak.”  Let’s jump in:

• Failing at something doesn’t make you a failure—not as a student, not in life.
• You never lose when you fail; you only learn from the experience.
• The best growth comes from learning from things you fail at.
• The opinions of people sitting on the sidelines should not intimidate you, because you’ve already done something they haven’t by putting yourself in the game.
• The way you think may be leading you, rather than you leading the way you think.
• Ask yourself: Are you actively pursuing a mindset that serves you, or are you being controlled by one you haven’t really given much thought to?

THINGS THAT CAN HELP YOU

1. Find the clear connection between stability and unfulfillment: The growth that comes from the lack of safe stability produces more wins.
2. Look for examples of people who failed their way to success: For every business you respect, every CEO you admire, almost every time their story shows how they’re now standing on top of layer after layer of failures, not successes. Familiarize yourself with as many stories like this as possible, and you will take the stigma of failure and turn it on its head, making it seem as though real success isn’t possible without failure—since it’s not.
3. Force yourself to say yes to things that make you feel uncomfortable: Start, fail, learn, repeat. It gets easier, whatever it is.

That leads us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:

Realize the immense value in reengineering your brain to appreciate the benefit and necessity of failure. Today’s culture has demonized failure, which means it’s on each of us to reframe it in a positive light as something you absolutely have to have if you want a rich, full life that continues to be better tomorrow than today. It means measuring success against a set of criteria tied not to how little you fail but how fast you get back up, how much you learn when you stumble, how the resources you needed to solve your mistakes have become part of your arsenal going forward.