A father asked his sons each week what they'd failed at, celebrating their attempts. This reframed failure not as a bad outcome, but as not trying at all. The shift turns failure into a step toward growth.
My dad growing up would actually encourage me to fail. I would come home from school and he would say to my brother and me, so what'd you guys fail at this week? And if I didn't have something, he would actually be disappointed. It flipped the whole model on its head. And I would come home from school and I can remember I'd be like, Dad, Dad, I tried out for this and I was horrible. And he'd be like, way to go. And he'd high-five me. I didn't realize it at the time, but he was just changing my definition of failure. My definition of failure became not about the outcome, but about not trying.
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