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Jake Burhans argues that school teaches us to fear failure, but that's wrong. He reframes it as a checkpoint, not an endpoint: failure gives you information and keeps you moving forward. Normalize setbacks and you'll reach your goals.
Jake Burhans argues that school teaches us to fear failure, but that's wrong. He reframes it as a checkpoint, not an endpoint: failure gives you information and keeps you moving forward. Normalize setbacks and you'll reach your goals.
You obviously get out of high school and you're scared to fail, right? You're scared to fail in your job, but that's just not how reality works. Like, you have to— so I think that's the biggest thing to reprogram is just understanding that failure means that you're on the way. It should be like a checkpoint is what it should be. It should be like, alright, checkpoint, failure, right? Checkpoint, failure, checkpoint, failure, and then eventually reaching the thing.
