Doing Difficult Things And Learning From Failure

Every now and then it’s not a bad idea to do something hard.  Something difficult at which you are likely to fail. 

If you are waiting for the punch line it’s not coming.  I’m actually serious about the idea of doing hard things that are likely to fail.

First of all, we tend to learn more from failures than from successes.

Second, even if we do fail, we learn a critically important life lesson: Failures are not fatal.  It is genuinely helpful to know we can fail at something and it is not the end of the world.  Life goes on.

Third, even if it’s a long shot, we might just succeed.  If we actually succeed at something when we were likely to fail it opens up entirely new ideas in our minds regarding what is possible.

“You will not grow without attempting things you are unable to do.”

Dr. Henry Cloud

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