My mind doesn’t think in terms of failure… I don’t worry about failing, and I don’t ever feel like I’ve failed. It’s not on my radar.
I assume a lot of people must worry about failing because there is a lot of talk about dancing with failure, failing forward, and failing more than you succeed.
Since failure is not something I worry about, I’ve made up for it with other very real and scary worries.
I get hung up on being wrong, making the same mistake twice, or looking dumb. Those are way worse if you ask me.
I avoid them at all costs.
They are pretty similar to failure, but not quite the same.
Brooke Castillo was talking about daily action in pursuit of an impossible goal on her podcast, and she talked about the failure that comes with it.
I loved the analogy she used and the visual it created for me, and I think it’s worth sharing.
She said the winner of the Super Bowl doesn’t win without mistakes. They fumble the ball, turn it over, miss tackles, and the other team scores.
The Super Bowl winner makes mistakes the whole way… and still manage to win in the end.
It’s always such a relief to me when I get out of my head and see that mistakes are normal. And so is failure, and so is making a wrong play.
You can win the Super Bowl even though you’ve made mistakes.
You can not win the Super Bowl if you don’t play.