Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

Success and Failure with Suzy Batiz at Joe Polish's Genius Network

22 Oct 2019 · 1 min

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Suzy Batiz argues that success and failure form a yin-yang relationship: the energy invested in failure directly fuels eventual success. She uses examples (concert violinist, 10,000 hours) to show that practice involves many failures, and recommends deliberately seeking substantial failure as a learning strategy to increase the magnitude of future success.

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It's one of those things that sounds so simple, yet it's so profound. I know. And I haven't quite the magnitude, okay? So I saw success and failure, what we consider success and failure, like, as a yin and yang, you know, like this energy. And what I saw was that at the same rate, you fail. So the amount of failure that you put into, let's just say failure is the black, you know, part of the yin and yang and is the young part. And the success is the why that the amount of energy that you put into that failure is the amount of energy that you can have in success. And I suddenly saw why. My life. I'm like, my God, most of my life was failure of what people consider, right? So now I've had the success that's so big. And then I thought back to, like a concert violinist. Think about how much failure there is and how many years. That's the 10,000 hours. Those 10,000 hours aren't 10,000 hours of success, right? So there's something energetically that I haven't quite figured out. But do you guys understand what I'm talking about? So I think that we should all be aiming for failure all the time. Lots of it. Lots and lots and lots and lots of failure. Because you're going. I believe that we have a natural propensity to learn and that we're not going to. It's just like, oh, fire. We naturally know not to do things, and that is going to actually increase the magnitude of your success.