Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

you WIN or you LEARN

1 Oct 2021 · 1 min

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A short spoken monologue (YouTube) in which the speaker—identified in metadata as Josh Trent—asserts the view “You either win or you learn,” reframing failure as learning rather than loss. He describes having close mentors (about ten) who, despite major hardships (divorce, estrangement, bankruptcy, lawsuits, technical outages), became wiser and more composed. The speaker says he is willing to endure suffering when pursuing what he considers good, true, and helpful to the world, and frames human life as mutual support—"walking each other home."

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You either win or you learn. It's not win or lose. You win or you learn. And all of my mentors that have all had. They're incredible. I've got 10 really, really close mentors, all amazing men and women. Half of them have been divorced or estranged, kids or bankrupt or miserable. Nightmares and lawsuits and websites crashing with 10 million people on it. Like, you know, five of the 10 of them are multi billionaires that are incredible, incredible people. They've all been through misery and they've learned so, so much from it. Their countenance is different. When you go through something like that, and it's almost. It's so endearing to watch because I'm like, okay, do I want to just have pain and sign up for pain? No. Like, not willingly. But if I'm in the pursuit of something that's good and something that's right and something that's true and it needs to go to the world to help the world, I'm willing to suffer. I'll go through that pain hoping I come out the other side. And I think that's how everyone lives life, man. Yeah, we're all just trying to walk each other home.