Weekly Question & Framework: May 17, 2024

Hello and welcome to the Curiosity Chronicle Weekly Question and Framework in three minutes or less, I'm going to give you one question and one framework to get you thinking going into the weekend. Without further ado, let's dive right into it A Thought Experiment for Reflection Would the idea of living your current life on repeat be horrifying or affirming? Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote on a thought experiment he referred to as eternal recurrence. Imagine a universe in which you would live your current life over and over again in perpetuity. You would live exactly the same way, down to the tiniest detail. Would this be horrifying or affirming? The thought experiment is intended to spark reflection and introspection on your current direction, decisions and actions. What changes would you need to make to your life such that the idea of living it over and over again would be exciting? Who would you need to become? What attitudes or self limiting beliefs would you need to scrub away? If you're feeling reflective, sit down with a blank page and consider the question in depth. You may uncover a few ideas for changes that you can make to improve your life and outlook. An Idea to Celebrate the Losses Museum of Failure the Museum of Failure is a traveling exhibit of failed products and innovations from around the world. The description of the exhibit, innovation needs failure. All progress, not only technological progress, is built on learning from past failures and mistakes. The museum aims to stimulate productive discussion about failure and inspire us to take meaningful risks. In other words, our failures play a necessary part in our successes so they should be celebrated. I love this idea. It got me thinking. What if we all built our own museum of failure? What if we celebrated our own failures just as much as our successes? Perhaps through learning to celebrate our failures as part of our journey to success, we would more readily confront our fears, take those leaps, and build the lives we were meant to have. My Museum of Failure would need to be pretty big. I gave up a grand slam on national television in the biggest baseball game of my life. Note for non baseball fans, giving up a grand slam is basically the worst thing you can do as a pitcher. I've been rejected for more jobs than I can count. I've had way more business ideas flop than take off. I've lost money on the vast majority of my active financial trades, which is why I don't do any active trading anymore. Reflecting on it each one of these failures has made me into who I am today. Each one of these failures is a part of any success that I might achieve in the future. One of my favorite quotes of all time. Michael Jordan. I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. What would be in your museum of failure? Celebrate those losses as a necessary precursor to your future wins. That's all for today's piece. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you learned something and I hope you'll share it with others. As always, until next time, stay curious friends.