Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

The difference between broken by failure vs ready for it #psychology #life

15 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Failure hurts less when you expect it. The speaker recommends acknowledging beforehand that you might fail, then deciding what you want to learn if you do. This shifts failure from demoralizing to useful.

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Failure is inevitable. So I would say the first thing to do is start prepping your mind for it, to know, hey, okay, I'm going to fail at something. If I go try, I'm going to fail. That's the first thing I always encourage people to do. So once you say that aloud and you accept that, it takes— it may not make failure be— nope, it won't be painless, but it takes that sting from it, you know, where you truly fail openly and you have to deal with the gamut of emotions. Now you have an idea of what failure is going to be, and you're like, okay, well, I already prepared for this mentally. And so now I'm walking into this situation knowing that I probably will fail, but here's the lessons I hope to learn from my failures. The first thing is prepare for failure and think about what you want to learn from that failure. You may not get it right every time. You may not get the— even get the failure right, but think about what you want to learn.