Stuart’s Philosophies

I was pondering over the prospect of launching my Internet Money Secrets 2007 event and letting it totally fall flat. As I thought about it, I realized how dangerous it is to have such thoughts. Yet, I wouldn’t be upset (for long) if it were to happen. Failure, in my opinion, is my biggest ally. It tells me to keep doing it so that I can keep reaping rewards.

I came across a blog post written by Craig Harper (I think it’s brilliant) that resonates so strongly with my idea of failure. Most people can’t think of failure as something good because they haven’t failed enough yet.

HA! Think about it. A runner in a marathon is really a sucker for punishment. Physically, that *is*. If you’ve never run a marathon, you might think that’s torture. But to a marathon runner, it’s stretching, building muscles, developing stamina that gets them to run all 40 miles easily. Plus, somewhere in that 40 miles is a trigger that gets the runner’s high going.

Maybe we need the failure’s high - that once we failed long enough, we’ll feel so high that the only thing we are aware of is the feeling of gratitude that we failed NOW when it doesn’t matter as much instead of later when it does.

 

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Deep Thought, Failure, General