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As I was driving down the street today I was thinking about how we judge success and failure. While I don't have as much money as the heavy hitters on this board. I'm about to take a 3 day camping trip in the Grand Canyon and the fact that I can do that whenever I like makes me real happy.
I read a blog post yesterday that said if you set your sights too high and then don't meet them, you fail. Therefore maybe you should set your sights lower and succeed all the time. While I don't agree with that post at all, what the post really says is that success and failure are relative terms.
If my business makes $100k a year its successful to me but probably a failure to Trump.
So anyway, back to failure. If we look at life as a singular timeline, I don't think we ever fail because no matter what you do at this minute is progressing you through life.
For instance, you're playing a video game and you lose. You reset the game and start over, you lose again. You continue this until you win. So maybe you've failed 10 times and succeeded once in the context of the video game.
Let's say it took you 5 hours to beat the game. In your real continuous life, you got better each time. Every time you replayed the game you got further and further until you won. You were progressing at a certain skill in life.
5 hours later in life, you've learned a new skill. You can beat ABC video game. Although in the video game vacuum you failed 10 times and succeeded once. In the timeline of life you gained a new skill in 5 hours.
I guess you could say that the only time you fail is if you never picked up the video game. But I would argue that there are many other video games to conquer and we can't conquer them all. So as long as you're playing something, you can't fail.
I read a blog post yesterday that said if you set your sights too high and then don't meet them, you fail. Therefore maybe you should set your sights lower and succeed all the time. While I don't agree with that post at all, what the post really says is that success and failure are relative terms.
If my business makes $100k a year its successful to me but probably a failure to Trump.
So anyway, back to failure. If we look at life as a singular timeline, I don't think we ever fail because no matter what you do at this minute is progressing you through life.
For instance, you're playing a video game and you lose. You reset the game and start over, you lose again. You continue this until you win. So maybe you've failed 10 times and succeeded once in the context of the video game.
Let's say it took you 5 hours to beat the game. In your real continuous life, you got better each time. Every time you replayed the game you got further and further until you won. You were progressing at a certain skill in life.
5 hours later in life, you've learned a new skill. You can beat ABC video game. Although in the video game vacuum you failed 10 times and succeeded once. In the timeline of life you gained a new skill in 5 hours.
I guess you could say that the only time you fail is if you never picked up the video game. But I would argue that there are many other video games to conquer and we can't conquer them all. So as long as you're playing something, you can't fail.
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