Making Failure Feel Fun

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FIND FAILURE THAT FEELS FUN

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If you want to be successful, find the failure that feels fun.

We are all pretty aware at this point that failure is a necessity to succeed. It’s in between where you currently are and where you want to end up, but most people don’t succeed because they’re either unwilling to fail or they get tired of failing before those failures pay off.

But this isn’t new news, so what's the point? Well, if you know that you have to fail at some point in order to succeed, the best thing you can do is find a way to make that insurmountable failure fun.

Here are two ways that you can go about doing it:

Change your frame of mind.

The first way to make failure fun is to reframe how you perceive it.

If you stop seeing failure through this lens of something that you have to hide and be ashamed of and instead see it as something that's a mark of progress, it won’t seem so detrimental.

Fundamentally, that's what it all comes down to. The same failure could be perceived by someone as a tragedy and by someone else as a chance to try something different, and those two different frames of mind will yield two completely different outcomes.

Make sure that you’re doing something you love.

The second way to make failure seem fun, and probably the most effective and evergreen way, is just to make sure that what you’re failing at is something that you love to do.

Failing at something that you don’t like will never be flipped to a positive. It just adds to the weight of the already negative situation and solidifies the fact that you hate it.

Your super simple solution to this is to just do what you love, and failure will become a fun part of the process.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

If you want to change your frame of mind, you need to start small, start taking small risks that have a high chance of failure, understand how you react and deal with them, and slowly but gradually increase the risk you take.

If you want to make sure that you’re doing something you love, ask yourself if you would do what you’re currently doing if it were the only thing you could do for the rest of your life.

If not, it's time to make a change.

TAKEAWAYS:

If you want to make failure feel fun then do these two tings:

1. Change your frame of mind around failure

2. Make sure that you’re doing something you love

If you can successfully do these two things then failure will become an exciting part of the process.

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

Strength is the measure of your ability to tolerate stress. If you want a better life, build the strength of your mind, body, and character. With enough training, little will phase you, and negativity won’t rule you.

Get rid of your plan B.

If you can’t stick to a plan, then it's because there's not enough of your neck on the line, you haven’t taken enough risk, or you haven't applied yourself enough to make it happen.

To fix this, make your current situation uncomfortable enough to give yourself no choice but to improve. Light your seat on fire.

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