Failure

It’s taken me 39 years to realise that failure is good.

Hear me out. If you succeed the first time that you try something, at the end of your journey what did you really learn? You’ve learned one thing (albeit one thing that worked).

However, if you get to the end of your journey and you’ve had 3 setbacks or failures along the way, kept going and still got there, then you’ve learned at least 4 things.

You’ve learned 3 ways that didn’t work for you, 1 way that did and you’ve built way more knowledge and resilience than you ever would have if everything had worked the first time.

The more you fail, the more you learn. If you successfully get to the end, with loads of failures. You’ve probably found lots of ways that didn’t work, some that almost did and one or two that you could make work for a good length of time. You’re probably as close to an expert in this subject as it’s possible to be.

Using this theory, I consider myself to be an expert in weight loss, making clothes, baking, writing and public speaking.

What are you an expert in?