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Prescription: Understand failure. See failure as a good thing.
Related Concepts: Reframing, Perfectionism, Be Patient, Mastery, Deliberate Practice, Kaizen

What is the Failure is Good Concept?

The idea that to be successful you have to re-train yourself to see failure as necessary and beneficial to your progress.

Why is it important?

Thinking of failure as "bad" will ruin your chances of success in any long-term endeavor. Seeing failure as part of a larger learning process creates perseverance and resilience.

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Failure is Good: Key Points

Recondition yourself to think of failure as a good thing. Failure is how you get to success. This is important to keep your spirits up when you're struggling.

The learning process relies on failure to drive it forward, so failure is necessary. Doing it wrong is a really good way to learn how to do it right, but most people are so afraid of doing it wrong they never try, and therefore never learn to do it right. Take writing as an example: if you sit down and write a crappy book, your next book will be much better. But if you're afraid your first book will be crappy, you will never sit down to write it. You need to zoom out. Don't get fixated on any one project.

Practice reframing failure as success. In fact, that right there could be a point of reframe: If I fail, I have an opportunity to reframe it as a success, thereby building my reframing skill.

Fail faster, as a strategy and technique to take the pressure off yourself to be perfect.

Failure is good. Good judgment comes from experience which comes from bad judgment, or making mistakes.¹

References

1. Anthony Robbins