Reflections about Failure

I am so happy to share with you these sources of inspiration, 2020 has been a very difficult year, yet I truly believe that there is no better time to believe in ourselves, instead of being afraid of failing let's be more afraid of not trying.

I am halfway through Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferris, it is an amazing book and here are some of the messages that have resonated with me:

• “Mistakes point our your fallibility and, more important, you can learn and improve from them” - Turia Pitt
• “Criticism is not failure. If you are not being criticized, you’re probably not doing anything exceptional” - Neil Strauss
• “Failure is not the opposite of success, but a stepping stone to success” Arianna Huffington
• “Always make new mistakes” Esther Dyson
• “If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake” - Frank Wilczek
• “I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” - Herbert Bayard Swope
• “Poker has taught me to disconnect failure from outcomes. Just because I lose doesn’t mean I failed, and just because I won doesn’t mean I succeeded, not when you define success and failure around making good decisions that will win in the long run. What matters is the decisions I made along the way, and every decision failure is an opportunity to learn and adjust my strategy going forward. By doing this, losing becomes a less emotional experience and more an opportunity to explore and learn” Annie Duke

Other sources of inspiration have been: 

• “The Practice” by Seth Godin. “Separate the process from the outcome. If we failed, would it be worth the journey?”
• “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World” by Adam Grant. Great inspiration to get out and generate more ideas to become original, his Ted talk is a good start -> https://youtu.be/fxbCHn6gE3U
• “Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable” by Tim Grover. From the relentless 13 I enjoyed the most “You don’t recognize failure; you know there’s more than one way to get what you want.”, and I loved this way of seeing failure:“Failure is what happens when you decide you failed. Until then, you’re still always looking for ways to get where you want to be.”