A snowboarding instructor teaches his sons that falls are learning moments worth celebrating. He argues that the cycle of practice, falling, and recovery builds real capability and confidence, a mindset he applies to technology and work.
Embrace the good fall. My, uh, I snowboard and I've been teaching my sons over the course of the last several years, and they have become far better skiers and snowboarders than I am. And one of the core ideas we have in our training that I think has helped them is the idea of the good fall, that they push themselves. And when they take a fall, it wasn't bad. It wasn't a thing to be, oh no, I'm so sorry that happened to you. It was a high five. You took a good fall. And you take the fall, you take the fall in a way that it's not going to cripple you. Right? And then you get back up again and you go take it again. And that knowledge from that fall is then going to make you even better at what comes next. And that commitment might give you the courage to go push yourself. Both the exercise that led up to the fall and the fall itself both drove capability that then could drive confidence. That is where I find the sequencing to allowing yourself the path towards greatness. And we do on the ski hill, we also do all the time with technology and with everything we can too.
