Todd DickersonCo-Founder & CEO @ ClickFunnels.com

The Unfair Advantage of Starting Young

10 Jul 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief motivational segment, the speaker reflects on how children and teenagers approach life without the fear of failure that adults often carry. Because they lack the “baggage” of past disappointments, they are more willing to try new things. The speaker emphasizes that real learning comes from taking action and experiencing hard‑won lessons, which in turn generate personal stories, challenges, and the enjoyment of problem‑solving. The overall message is that the youthful willingness to fail provides a unique, valuable advantage.

As a kid and as teens, we don't know that we can fail yet. We don't have the, the same kind of like baggage that adults have. All of that is useful, but you still have to actually go and do the thing. And there are some lessons that you kind of just have to learn the hard way. That's actually, that's the cool part though, is that out of that creates a story and out of that comes challenges and out of it comes actually the fun part of problem solving this stuff.