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A framework for making failure less scary
It’s all about evaluation.
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How to turn failure into evaluation
Happy Sunday, Soothers. Back in 2019 a Twitter account I followed asked, “If you could go back and tell 2009 You one piece of advice that would have REALLY HELPED if it hadn’t taken you this WHOLE DECADE to learn, what would it be?”
This is what I replied:
Failure isn’t actually a real thing, life is just a series of trying out different stuff and collecting whatever happens afterwards as evidence and information for next time. Also please meditate like immediately
— Catherine Andrews (@candrews) December 22, 2019
This is a lesson that took me way too long to learn. (Same with the whole meditation thing.) Fear of failure kept me stuck for years, maybe decades, around things I really cared about but was too scared to try.
Once I was really able to shift my thinking to see that everything was just a big experiment, one which you could evaluate to improve upon afterwards to take into the next thing, I was kind of excited. I love discovering efficiencies. I love understanding patterns and why a thing may or may not have worked out. I love testing out…
