Most people hate to fail, myself included. But most people also know that on the journey you’re going to take some falls.
So what if we changed our mindset around failure? What if we realised that having a go was just as important, if not more important, than getting the outcome?
What if we taught the next generation that having a go, and failing along the way, was more important than not failing ever?
This very approach helped Sara Blakely to become the youngest ever self-made female billionaire in America with her business Spanx.
Worth thinking about.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.