How To Get A 100% Failure Rate

Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.

Once again, welcome friends to the daily podcast.

A little bit of encouragement for wherever you are.

In the world and today we're sharing something from the famous

philosopher, Soren, Kierkegaard.

Who I'm sure you're in enormously familiar with and think about

and read on a daily basis.

Well, maybe you don't and if you don't, don't worry.

I've got you covered today.

We're going to share a great quote quote.

From Soren Kierkegaard, listen to this.

He says it is better.

To try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

The result may be the same.

But you won't be.

We always grow more through defeats than victories.

This seems to be an unchangeable law of the cosmos.

Every time we have a major win.

We're usually pretty happy.

We're like, this is great.

You're on top of the world and that's a good part of living, right?

It's a great part of being human, that, that feeling of accomplishment, of

success, of victory that we all love.

But really the growth.

The real growth comes through the knock-backs, the

setbacks and the failures.

So what Kiki God is saying here is that it's much more important than

at least at least that we try that we get off the couch that we take the

shot, that we actually try something.

So, you know, for many years I was really, you know, I think

this was a big problem for me.

I wanted to be sure.

I wanted to know that if I was going to do something, I'd get a result.

And I can't always know that I couldn't always know that.

So over time.

I slowly learned that you just have to start that you have to try.

So Kiki, God says here that even if you sort of fail or succeed, he goes, once

you try, the results can go either way.

The result may be the same, but he says you won't be, you won't be the same.

If you try you change, even if you fail, you change, as long as you try,

as long as you attempt something, as long as you actually get in the ring of

life, the metaphorical boxing ring, the.

You know, the metaphorical summit peak of life and make the

effort you change in the process.

And again, he says, we change more.

We grow more through the defeats than the victories.

So.

You know, I was talking to, I was coaching somebody yesterday and I was

saying to them, you know, we were mapping out a strategy, a couple of things

that they needed to get on top of.

And I could sense the resistance and they're going, we got to do this.

You have to try, you have to attempt.

I said, you can always undo this.

You can always change your approach and maybe let it go or try whatever I said,

but what we need to get his feedback.

I used to teach this all the time.

You know, that failure is feedback.

Failure is feedback.

Remember talking to thousands of young people a year, trying

to teach this principle.

Failure is feedback.

Many of them are kind of paralyzed because they, they construed any kind of

failure to be terminal, to be terribly serious and, and really problematic.

But I kept teaching.

No, it's okay.

It's okay to get the feedback.

Once you trying, once you making the effort.

So I'm more time, Kiki.

God, it is better.

To try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

Isn't that a great line.

If you try nothing, you've got a hundred percent chance of success.

That is a great odds.

If you want a really mediocre life, you try nothing.

You will get nothing.

You will get a 100% return on investment every single time, but it's doing the

other stuff, the stuff where you may fail.

Where you grow and he finishes again by saying the result might be the

same, but you won't be, we always grow more through defeats than victory.

So here is my question to you today.

What are you not doing?

What are you kind of vaguely turning around in your head and thinking

about occasionally and maybe talking about, but not actually doing

every single one of us has got one and you've got to put yourself.

In the fire, you got to do it.

I said last week, I just signed up for a 255 kilometer race, uh, with

five kilometers of vertical climbing.

And I said to Karen yesterday, I said, you know what?

This one's going to hurt.

I said, I've done a lot of crazy stuff, but this one's going to hurt.

I just realized yesterday I got a speaking engagement in another state the next day.

Right the next day.

So 255 kilometers, five kilometers of vertical climbing.

And then I got to be on stage within 24 hours.

So this is going to hurt, but you can hear it in my voice.

I'm kind of pumped.

I'm kind of like, you know what.

This is going to be red hot.

This is going to.

This is going to be insane.

And I want to do this forever.

Go and physically be able to, but I'm going to grow and I'm

going to have a shot at it.

And, uh, I just want to encourage you as well.

Get your feet in the fire, commit to something, say yes to something.

Make the call, send the email, check the website, do whatever

it is that you are avoiding.

Because if you just sit there, you got success.

You've got a hundred percent success.

At achieving nothing.

So be encouraged.

Get out there, have a go try something.

That's how we move forward.

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