Day 458 - Small wins > grand failures - https://golifelog.com/posts/small-wins-greater-grand-failures-1648949061666
I think I went too much the other way when it comes to embracing failure.
Yes failing is a sign that I’m taking risks, putting myself out there. With each failure, if I learn from it, iterate and improve my approach from it, then it’s not counted as a failure. It’s actually growth.
By associating failure as necessary to success, the only way to pave my way to success was through failure.
I was so wrong.
Failures—especially grand failures—are costly, inefficient, demotivating.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But to muster up a response after a big failure, is hard. Not too smart too. It’s so demotivating. What if you don’t pick yourself up?
Why go through the extremes of high highs and low lows?
Small wins can pave the way to success better than learning through failure.
I’d put grand failures on a moral high horse, on a pedestal where there’s none. As if grand failures are better and more effective in getting to my goal than small wins.
Indeed, why do I need to feel like a martyr and have to crash the plane in order to say that I survived and got stronger?
What am I truly after? My endgame (financial freedom), or being able to show off my battle scars?
I was so wrong. So so wrong.
Small wins > grand failures
Yes failing is a sign that I’m taking risks, putting myself out there. With each failure, if I learn from it, iterate and improve my approach from it, then it’s not counted as a failure. It’s actually growth.
By associating failure as necessary to success, the only way to pave my way to success was through failure.
I was so wrong.
Failures—especially grand failures—are costly, inefficient, demotivating.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But to muster up a response after a big failure, is hard. Not too smart too. It’s so demotivating. What if you don’t pick yourself up?
Why go through the extremes of high highs and low lows?
Small wins can pave the way to success better than learning through failure.
I’d put grand failures on a moral high horse, on a pedestal where there’s none. As if grand failures are better and more effective in getting to my goal than small wins.
Indeed, why do I need to feel like a martyr and have to crash the plane in order to say that I survived and got stronger?
What am I truly after? My endgame (financial freedom), or being able to show off my battle scars?
I was so wrong. So so wrong.
Small wins > grand failures
Jason Leow
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