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Embrace Failure to Push Your Skills to the Next Level
Failing is just a sign that you are doing something outside of your current capabilities. When you are learning a new skill, you will inevitably make mistakes. You are, after all, trying to do something that you don’t yet know how to do.
Rather than being afraid of failure, embrace it and be curious. Try to understand why something didn’t work, so that you can improve it for next time. Eventually, you will be able to do what you couldn’t do before.
Learning to walk
When we are young, we are not afraid of failing. A baby that is learning to walk continues to try, even after hundreds of times falling over. They don’t decide that walking is too hard or not worth the effort. They’re not worried about making mistakes or humiliating themselves. They walk, they fall, and they get back up.
We continue to see this throughout childhood, where most children are not afraid of trying, and in the beginning, failing at new skills. As we grow older, we start to notice our abilities and how people evaluate us. This makes…
