Seeking the "Beautiful" Failure

In school, we are taught that an "A" is for getting things right and a "F" is for being a failure. We carry this academic trauma into our adult lives, avoiding mistakes like they are a contagious rash. But if you want to make a quantum leap, you have to reverse your field. You have to seek failure.

Mistakes are the best teachers you will ever have. They are "growing pains". If your growing pains have stopped, it means you have stopped growing. As Bob Dylan sang, "He not busy being born is busy dying". A high failure rate is actually a sign that you are learning at a blistering speed. It means you are testing the limits of what you can do.

The more you read my emails, the more success you will have because you are learning to see "trouble" as progress in disguise. You are likely grateful for having clicked the links in my email because they are giving you the permission to be "messy" again. You cannot bake a cake without getting the kitchen dirty. Halfway through a surgery, it looks like a crime scene. A rocket heading to the moon is off-course 90% of the time; it "fails" its way to the moon by constantly correcting its errors.

If you are unwilling to taste failure, you will never taste the fruits of your true potential. If you stay in your "safe zone" where you never make a mistake, you are essentially guaranteeing that you will never know how good you really are. You have leveled off.

When you start a quantum leap, you deliberately destabilize yourself. You break your old habit patterns, which creates a bit of inner chaos. You might see a temporary lag in performance—that is just you "poising for the jump". It is the pause that happens when you are changing gears.

Don't let the stress seduce you into retreating to the "trap of the familiar". Failure does not mean you are defeated; it means you are tempering the steel. The difficulties are evidence of improvement. Use failure as a resource to find the edge of your capacities.

A quantum leap is an action concept. Movement educates you. Pursuit teaches you what works and what doesn't. Passive wishing generates zero data. But action generates a steady stream of valuable information you cannot get any other way. If you want a quicker learning curve, get in motion.

You don't have to be flawless. Doing the right things imperfectly will bring you a breakthrough. Doing the wrong things perfectly will only lead to a dead end. Focus on the kind of effort, not just the level of effort.

Think back to a recent "foul-up." What is the one lesson buried in that mess that you can use to propel yourself forward today?

I’m going to show you how to trade your "comfort addiction" for high-velocity results tomorrow, but it might be a bumpy ride.

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Bradley Woods