3482: How To Fall Down and Get Back Up Again by Chris Guillebeau on Failure as A Learning Experience

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

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🗓️ 2 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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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 3482: Chris Guillebeau explores the inevitability of setbacks and the resilience needed to overcome them. By reframing failure as a learning experience and adopting a mindset of persistence, challenges become stepping stones rather than obstacles. Success isn’t about avoiding failure, it’s about rising every time you fall. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://chrisguillebeau.com/how-to-fall-down-and-get-back-up-again Quotes to ponder: "Falling down is inevitable. Getting back up is a choice." "Every failure contains the seeds of a future success if you’re willing to keep going." "You don’t have to enjoy failure, but you do have to learn from it." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	This is Optimal Living Daily, how to fall down and get back up again by Chris Gillibow of
0:37.4	chrisgillibow.com, and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:40.7	Welcome back to the podcast where I read to you every day of the year to help bring a bit more
0:45.6	meaning and happiness to your days. So with that, let's get right to our next post and continue
0:50.7	optimizing your life.
0:56.1	How to Fall Down and Get Back Up Again by Chris Gillibow of chrisgillibow.com.
1:02.6	This is a lesson on how to look absolutely ridiculous in front of a crowd of strangers
1:07.2	and how to recover as gracefully as possible.
1:12.3	Well, let's clarify that a bit.
1:17.1	The first part is easy, since I'm constantly making stupid mistakes all over the world and trying to minimize the embarrassment. I have no shortage of experience in the dumb things I've done
1:21.2	in random countries department. The second part of the lesson is more important, how to recover
1:26.8	from your own most embarrassing moment.
1:29.4	Anyone can do stupid things as I tell myself pretty much every time I travel and get lost somewhere,
1:34.6	is the brave ones who are able to recover.
1:37.3	I decided to tell this story because I was talking to a friend the other day who recently had her own most embarrassing moment.
1:43.8	I told her this story, and she smiled a
1:46.3	little. You know who you are. So enough procrastinating. Here you have it, how to look like a complete
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