I want you to fail today.
Yeah. I do.
I want you to fail today so you can learn something. You can learn that failure doesn’t kill you. Failure doesn’t end your hopes and squash your dreams. Failure cannot stop you.
You can learn more from failure than you can from success. Sure, you trip and fall, but what did you trip over? Was it something you should have been paying attention to all along?
I’m not saying to give up. I’m not saying to purposefully fail. I am saying try that fucking impossible thing that you’ve wanted to try, but haven’t, because you’re afraid of failure. If you succeed, rock on. But if you fail, then that’s better. Because you will have learned something. Yeah, someone else succeeded, got to the top of the mountain before you, but maybe you stumbled into the cave full of gold beneath the mountain.
Or maybe you stumbled into the cave full of monsters. Shit! What now? Don’t worry; they’re made of delicious monster meat, so go to town on them. Slay the monsters. Corner the market on monster meat, and then laugh at the people at the top of the mountain saying, “What? Monster meat? That’s the new thing? What are you talking about?”
Failure. It makes monster meat.
