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Why accepting failure feels impossible
And how to bridge the gap
High-performers are allergic to failure.
Intellectually, they know that failure is part of the process, even a form of success. But when they’re used to succeeding all of the time, why accept the failure-kind-of-success when they can shoot for the success-kind-of-success?
When they inevitably experience their first failure, the ground is pulled out from under them. But it’s not the failure itself that sends them down a spiral. It’s the story they tell themselves from the beginning.
Today, let’s talk about how to embrace (or at least tolerate) failure without using clichés.
🦄 How to Become a Unicorn
We love a success story. Specifically, we love finding out how they did it so we can replicate that success for ourselves.
But there’s one thing that every success story has in common: the key to their success was one simple strategy.
🍉 Oooh this is going to be juicy. This strategy is going to be so groundbreaking that we’ll smack ourselves on the forehead and say “Why didn’t I think of that?!”
They reveal the one simple strategy as:
- I surrounded myself with the right people
