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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

3244: Is Failure Good? by James Altucher on Self Improvement & Personal Development

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3244: James Altucher challenges the glorification of failure, arguing that there's nothing inherently valuable in failing. Instead, he emphasizes learning from related concepts like curiosity, persistence, and forgiveness. Altucher encourages focusing on these aspects to overcome challenges and grow, rather than fixating on failure itself. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/failure-good/ Quotes to ponder: "Failure is not a hard problem. It’s a label. Failure is in the past. Hard problems can be solved right now." "The best way to get better, to get more known, to learn the subtleties of your art or your field or your sport, is to simply do it again." "The thing you learn first is forgiveness. Then you move back to the present. Get healthy. Be around people you love. Start being creative again." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily episode 3244.

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Is Failure Good?

0:06.0

By James Altature of James Altature.com

0:09.0

and I'm Justin Molek your personal narrator.

0:12.0

Now let's get right to our next post as we optimize your life.

0:17.0

Is Failure Good by James Altature of James Altature.com

0:26.0

Failure is not good.

0:28.2

Failure is the worst thing possible.

0:30.2

You feel sick.

0:31.4

You feel like you're going to die.

0:33.0

You feel like if you don't die you might kill yourself.

0:36.0

There's absolutely nothing good about failure.

0:39.0

There's nothing you can pretend to learn from failure.

0:42.0

Lately we've been living in the golden age of failure.

0:45.0

Everyone wants to share their story.

0:48.0

Everyone wants to fail forward.

0:50.0

You can't learn anything from failure because don't forget that every single moment in your past

0:55.3

has added up to that one moment in your present where you are lying on the floor, moaning,

1:00.5

you're painful and abysmal failure.

1:03.6

Stop whining and stop using the word failure.

1:07.3

Ah!

1:08.3

Here are better things to learn from.

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