It's good to FAIL - Tom Hardy - #Entspresso

Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is: It's good to fail. Over to you, Tom Hardy.

I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going. Especially if you're coming up with something from nothing, which is presumably what we all do in the creative department, is that I'm selling a handful of nothing, and hoping to come through with some results. And I'll put myself right out there for the risk of it, and I will fail, and it's okay to fail. In fact, you learn more from failing and humiliation in my game than any other that I know. And actually, that seems to be quite similar across the board in most professions from the people that I've met. So it's good to fail, it's not embarrassing, and humiliation is your friend.

At first glance, you might think it's good to fail. How does that make sense? I want to succeed. And the thing that you have to understand is the people who've had the most success are the people who failed the most. Failure means you're trying. Failure means you're going out there and trying to do something new, trying to grow, trying to develop, trying to learn. Along that path to success of figuring out what works, you have to also figure out what doesn't work. If you're trying to, you know, grow a plant, you have to understand there's going to be rainy days. If there were no rainy days, you wouldn't have the water to grow a plant. And so You will have rainy days in your life, in your business, trying to figure that out, and that helps you grow to be able to create something amazing. I think the people who play their life so safe, or their business so safe, that they don't take any failure means that they're not taking any risk at all, and they're not living happily. I think the key with failure is one, to do it on a small scale. Whenever I have an idea for something, I want to test it on a small scale. How can I find the smallest way to get started on this and not involve a lot of money, not involve a lot of people, not— and not make it this big huge production. How can I start with me today with one small thing just to see, see if I like it, see if it works, see if I'm getting momentum, see if I fall in love with it, see if I want to continue doing it? So many people build up this huge thing and then they never take action on it, or where they do, it has to work or they're gonna be, you know, they're gonna kill themselves sometimes they actually do, or it's such a big thing that if they're so afraid of failure they never even take any action because they're— that fear of failure is immobilizing. So fail smaller, start smaller, start immediately with some kind of action towards achieving whatever your goal is, and then not having this insane emotional attachment to failure. Part of being, I think, a success in any field, from an athlete to an entrepreneur to a musician, you know, you will fail, you will get rejected, you will lose that race sometimes. Nobody wins all the time. And so not having an insane emotional attachment that, that prevents you from moving forward and getting up and getting better. As long as each time you do it, you're learning something new, right? As long as you have learned, it's not a failure. If you go out and do the same thing again and again and again and again and again, and you're not getting results, well, maybe you need to change your approach and change your tactic. But as long as you are learning from it and you go out and do something a little bit better, a little bit different the next time, then it's not a failure. And so failure, failure is a good thing. You need to fail to achieve success. So the question of the day today is, I'm curious, what are your thoughts on failure? What did you grow up being told failure was all about? What beliefs have been put on you from, you know, your parents and the people around you around failure? Super curious to find out. Leave in the comments below. I'm going to join in the discussion. I also want to give a quick shout out to John Cousins. John, thank you so much for pre-ordering a copy of my book. It really, really, really means a lot to me. Those of you guys watching, you want a chance at a shout out in a future video, make sure to pick up a copy of the book and email in your receipt so we can keep track and send you the bonuses. Thank you guys so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe, or whatever your one word is, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso.

I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.