Jake Burhans compares pursuing goals to a guided missile's flight path: both constantly correct course based on feedback. Most people quit after the first failure, but each setback is data that makes you antifragile, stronger and more resilient.
If you want to think about your success journey like a missile, like a guided missile, how does a guided missile work? It basically, on a really tight scale, it gets shot out and if it gets too far off course to the left, it's going to get an indicator and it's going to go back this way. And it gets too far off to the right, it's going to get a, uh, a signal, then it goes back this way. And it basically just goes back and forth all the way to its destination. And that's basically how we are on any goal that we're striving for, right? We get a little bit off course, failure, boom, just a feedback point. Okay, so now I got to correct here. I'm going to go this way. Failure, just a feedback point, right? And maybe there's 4 feedback points, maybe there's 20 before you get to the goal. But the problem is people hit the first failure feedback point and they like give up, doesn't work. It's like, no, that's just the first way it didn't tell you. So you gotta embrace these failures. You're gonna fail all the time. It's just feedback, right? The failures too are, again, those are the fragile moments where you fail and you break, but as a person on your mission, it makes you more antifragile to be able to reach your outcomes.
