This is Optimal Living Daily episode 1695, your relationship with failure by Steve Pavlina of

stevepavlina.com and I'm Justin Mollig, your very own personal narrator today,

and every day, where I simply read to you from amazing blogs or articles. It's not a typical

podcast, no interviews, and this is short, almost always fewer than 10 minutes. So with that,

let's get right to it and start optimizing your life. Your relationship with failure by Steve Pavlina

of stevepavlina.com Here's some quotes from JK Rowling about the fear of failure.

Quote, part of the reason there were seven years between having the idea for philosopher's

stone and getting it published was that I kept putting the manuscript away for months at a time,

convinced it was rubbish. Quote, fear failure is the saddest reason on earth not to do what you were

meant to do. I finally found the courage to start submitting my first book to agents and publishers

at a time when I felt a conspicuous failure. Only then did I decide that I was going to try this

one thing that I always suspected I could do and if it didn't work out, well, my face was worse and

survived. Quote, ultimately, once you rather be the person who actually finished the project you're

dreaming about, rather than the one who talks about always having one or two, end quote.

The notion that you might fail can really slow you down, but it's not the failure itself that's

the problem. The problem is your relationship with failure. Consider the grand opening of Disneyland,

which happened about 65 years ago on July 17, 1955. It was supposed to be a press preview day with

limited attendance and it was a spectacular failure. Here's some things that happened that day.

Disney was expecting 11,000 guests because they sent out a limited number of invitations,

but 28,000 people showed up. Someone sold thousands of counterfeit tickets. Another guy set up

a ladder in the back of the park and charged people $5 to sneak in that way and many did.

The crowd was trying to reach Disneyland and cause a seven mile backup on the Santa Ana freeway.

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