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Navy SEALs use the 40% Rule: most people quit at 40% of their actual capacity because it gets hard. The speaker argues that avoiding failure is a mistake. You have to deliberately confront it to find out what you're really capable of.

Navy SEALs use the 40% Rule: most people quit at 40% of their actual capacity because it gets hard. The speaker argues that avoiding failure is a mistake. You have to deliberately confront it to find out what you're really capable of.
There's a saying the Navy SEALs have. It says most people, when they get to 40% and it gets harder, they quit. And that much is left in terms of true capability. If you don't take yourself to failure, you don't even know. And it's not just failure this first time. It's, you know, you keep on. If you've pushed failure out of your life, you've made a big mistake.

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