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How to Keep Going After Failing

Name: How to Keep Going After Failing
Uploaded: 2026-03-06T02:00:00+00:00
Duration: 19 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief motivational monologue, speaker Shanli Liu (CPA, CTP) uses a gymnastics pommel‑horse metaphor to illustrate how entrepreneurs should…

6 Mar 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief motivational monologue, speaker Shanli Liu (CPA, CTP) uses a gymnastics pommel‑horse metaphor to illustrate how entrepreneurs should respond to failure. She explains that, just as gymnasts are urged to get back on the horse immediately after a fall—even if injured—entrepreneurs must quickly re‑engage with their ventures after being "bucked" by the entrepreneurial horse. The core message is that success is less about how hard you can hit, and more about how hard you can be hit and keep moving forward. The speaker emphasizes that everyone experiences loss, and that embracing the hit and persisting is essential.

In gymnastics, as soon as you fall off the pommel horse, even if you twist or break your ankle, they try and get you right back on the horse again. And they do that because if you don't and you take enough time off, you start developing these fears around getting back on. You never get on again. You got bucked by the entrepreneurial horse and that's okay. It's part of the game. It's not about how hard you can hit, but it's about how hard you can get hit and keep going forward. Everybody gets hit. Everyone fucking loses.