Brian JohnsonChairman & Philosopher in Residence at Heroic

You have to fail to learn.

17 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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A brief motivational monologue by Brian Johnson arguing that setting audacious goals requires embracing failure as a necessary step in learning. He frames failure as data to be transformed into growth (a "mistake learner's high") and emphasizes rapidly converting frustration into accelerated evolutionary cycles by iterating on larger goals.

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You want to have audacious goals, to master something or to change the world or to create a profitable business or to create a coaching business or whatever. Audacious goal Step one Five steps of Success Step two is you fail. Then what happens? Well, then you learn. You take that data and you get a little bit better. But you don't do it shaming yourself with a bad mindset. You might even feel emotion of frustration and disappointment. That's not bad. But then you immediately alchemize it into a mistake learner's high. And the whole game of life is to evolve and you want to speed up the evolutions. You got to go through the glitch. When you feel off quick, how fast can you turn it around and accelerate the evolutionary cycles? You can only do that if you're willing to set audacious goals, fail, learn and then make distinctions and then get back at it and set more audacious goals.