In today’s episode I share an awesome insight about how to guarantee yourself a 100% failure rate in life. If this does not sound appealing then I have some ideas about what you can do differently.
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Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.
Speaker:Once again, welcome friends to the daily podcast.
Speaker:A little bit of encouragement for wherever you are.
Speaker:In the world and today we're sharing something from the famous
Speaker:philosopher, Soren, Kierkegaard.
Speaker:Who I'm sure you're in enormously familiar with and think about
Speaker:and read on a daily basis.
Speaker:Well, maybe you don't and if you don't, don't worry.
Speaker:I've got you covered today.
Speaker:We're going to share a great quote quote.
Speaker:From Soren Kierkegaard, listen to this.
Speaker:He says it is better.
Speaker:To try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.
Speaker:The result may be the same.
Speaker:But you won't be.
Speaker:We always grow more through defeats than victories.
Speaker:This seems to be an unchangeable law of the cosmos.
Speaker:Every time we have a major win.
Speaker:We're usually pretty happy.
Speaker:We're like, this is great.
Speaker:You're on top of the world and that's a good part of living, right?
Speaker:It's a great part of being human, that, that feeling of accomplishment, of
Speaker:success, of victory that we all love.
Speaker:But really the growth.
Speaker:The real growth comes through the knock-backs, the
Speaker:setbacks and the failures.
Speaker:So what Kiki God is saying here is that it's much more important than
Speaker:at least at least that we try that we get off the couch that we take the
Speaker:shot, that we actually try something.
Speaker:So, you know, for many years I was really, you know, I think
Speaker:this was a big problem for me.
Speaker:I wanted to be sure.
Speaker:I wanted to know that if I was going to do something, I'd get a result.
Speaker:And I can't always know that I couldn't always know that.
Speaker:So over time.
Speaker:I slowly learned that you just have to start that you have to try.
Speaker:So Kiki, God says here that even if you sort of fail or succeed, he goes, once
Speaker:you try, the results can go either way.
Speaker:The result may be the same, but he says you won't be, you won't be the same.
Speaker:If you try you change, even if you fail, you change, as long as you try,
Speaker:as long as you attempt something, as long as you actually get in the ring of
Speaker:life, the metaphorical boxing ring, the.
Speaker:You know, the metaphorical summit peak of life and make the
Speaker:effort you change in the process.
Speaker:And again, he says, we change more.
Speaker:We grow more through the defeats than the victories.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:You know, I was talking to, I was coaching somebody yesterday and I was
Speaker:saying to them, you know, we were mapping out a strategy, a couple of things
Speaker:that they needed to get on top of.
Speaker:And I could sense the resistance and they're going, we got to do this.
Speaker:You have to try, you have to attempt.
Speaker:I said, you can always undo this.
Speaker:You can always change your approach and maybe let it go or try whatever I said,
Speaker:but what we need to get his feedback.
Speaker:I used to teach this all the time.
Speaker:You know, that failure is feedback.
Speaker:Failure is feedback.
Speaker:Remember talking to thousands of young people a year, trying
Speaker:to teach this principle.
Speaker:Failure is feedback.
Speaker:Many of them are kind of paralyzed because they, they construed any kind of
Speaker:failure to be terminal, to be terribly serious and, and really problematic.
Speaker:But I kept teaching.
Speaker:No, it's okay.
Speaker:It's okay to get the feedback.
Speaker:Once you trying, once you making the effort.
Speaker:So I'm more time, Kiki.
Speaker:God, it is better.
Speaker:To try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.
Speaker:Isn't that a great line.
Speaker:If you try nothing, you've got a hundred percent chance of success.
Speaker:That is a great odds.
Speaker:If you want a really mediocre life, you try nothing.
Speaker:You will get nothing.
Speaker:You will get a 100% return on investment every single time, but it's doing the
Speaker:other stuff, the stuff where you may fail.
Speaker:Where you grow and he finishes again by saying the result might be the
Speaker:same, but you won't be, we always grow more through defeats than victory.
Speaker:So here is my question to you today.
Speaker:What are you not doing?
Speaker:What are you kind of vaguely turning around in your head and thinking
Speaker:about occasionally and maybe talking about, but not actually doing
Speaker:every single one of us has got one and you've got to put yourself.
Speaker:In the fire, you got to do it.
Speaker:I said last week, I just signed up for a 255 kilometer race, uh, with
Speaker:five kilometers of vertical climbing.
Speaker:And I said to Karen yesterday, I said, you know what?
Speaker:This one's going to hurt.
Speaker:I said, I've done a lot of crazy stuff, but this one's going to hurt.
Speaker:I just realized yesterday I got a speaking engagement in another state the next day.
Speaker:Right the next day.
Speaker:So 255 kilometers, five kilometers of vertical climbing.
Speaker:And then I got to be on stage within 24 hours.
Speaker:So this is going to hurt, but you can hear it in my voice.
Speaker:I'm kind of pumped.
Speaker:I'm kind of like, you know what.
Speaker:This is going to be red hot.
Speaker:This is going to.
Speaker:This is going to be insane.
Speaker:And I want to do this forever.
Speaker:Go and physically be able to, but I'm going to grow and I'm
Speaker:going to have a shot at it.
Speaker:And, uh, I just want to encourage you as well.
Speaker:Get your feet in the fire, commit to something, say yes to something.
Speaker:Make the call, send the email, check the website, do whatever
Speaker:it is that you are avoiding.
Speaker:Because if you just sit there, you got success.
Speaker:You've got a hundred percent success.
Speaker:At achieving nothing.
Speaker:So be encouraged.
Speaker:Get out there, have a go try something.
Speaker:That's how we move forward.
Speaker:All right friends, that's it for me today, please make sure you've subscribed.
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Speaker:All right, everybody.
Speaker:Thanks so much for listening in my name's Jonathan Doyle.
Speaker:This has been the daily podcast.
Speaker:And I'm going to have another message for you tomorrow.
