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Jake Burhans argues that school and sports taught us to fear failure as a reflection of our worth, which paralyzes us. Reframe it as feedback instead of judgment, and you'll actually want to fail because it's how you learn what works.
Jake Burhans argues that school and sports taught us to fear failure as a reflection of our worth, which paralyzes us. Reframe it as feedback instead of judgment, and you'll actually want to fail because it's how you learn what works.
Our inability to take action on things often comes from our fear of failure. We're taught early on in school and other things— sports, from our parents— that if we don't accomplish a certain outcome, we are a failure as a person. So we begin to tie all of these outcomes to failures as human beings, which then obviously makes us scared to act. The thing we don't realize is that failure is a prerequisite of success. You must fail. You must figure out what doesn't work so that you can find out what does work. And once you can make this switch in your brain to understand that failure is just feedback, and that you need that feedback to figure out how to do something to find success, the quicker you're gonna get to failing. You're gonna be excited to fail because you understand that every time that you find out something that doesn't work, it's one step closer to finding out what does work.
