Failure is Your Best Friend

Weirdly, sometimes failing is the best thing for you. While it might not be apparent in the moment, zooming out and looking back on a particular experience, it can become easy to understand how it was actually beneficial.

Failure does two things for you:

1. Pushes you in the right direction

2. Provides valuable learning

Failure is able to push you in the right direction as each time you fail you narrow in on your goal. Because of this, succeeding is just a function of failing an unspecified number of times over a period of time. Failure is a funnel to success.

With each iteration of trying and failing you also gain valuable insights that move you closer to your goal. Some of the most valuable learning comes from failing which, ironically, makes failure one of the most important ingredients to succeeding.

Because of this, you shouldn’t shy away from failure, but lean into it. You suceed by going through failures not skerting around them.

Sometimes failures can feel like setbacks but can actually lead to greater success in the longrun. My absolute favorite example of this is Brian Acton’s interview with Facebook.

Brian was rejected from joining Facebook in 2009. Five years later in 2014 Facebook bought Brian’s company, WhatsApp, for $19 billion dollars.

I can only imagine how glad Brian is that he “failed” his interviews.

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