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The Marie Forleo Podcast

350 - How to Deal with Failure with Seth Godin (Brighten Your Day Part 3)

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

What does everyday life and the game of Monopoly have in common? Sometimes you lose. At least that’s what Seth Godin wants you to keep in mind as you take steps in your career, life, and business. If fear of failure or setbacks send you into a tailspin, this Brighten Your Day minisode will help you move forward with greater peace and perspective.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Louise from Team Forleo, and today's Brightoner day mini-sode is all about how

0:06.2

to get back up after a failure.

0:09.0

We all get knocked down from time to time, and the incomparable Seth Godin has the perfect

0:13.5

advice for when this happens.

0:15.4

You are going to love it.

0:20.8

I feel like one of the themes that I've seen throughout your work over the years is having

0:25.4

people be really comfortable with failures and setbacks and all the twists and turns.

0:31.1

Can you talk a little bit about that journey?

0:32.4

We have a lot of people in our audience who are just starting out, and I feel like there's

0:35.1

so much fear about if they fail or if things are going to flop, and you always have such

0:39.4

a great point of view on it.

0:42.9

I used to think that Monopoly was a good board game, and I, in fact, invented GoDin Monopoly,

0:48.3

which you can find the rules for online, but I thought it was a good, like at one point,

0:52.9

my kids and I were so good at it, we could play it in the cart without the board.

0:56.6

We just knew where all the properties were, and we would roll the dice in our head and

0:59.9

do the whole thing.

1:00.9

Wow.

1:01.9

Monopoly is not a good board game.

1:02.9

I've come to that conclusion, but there's a good lesson here, and the lesson is this,

1:07.4

unless you're four years old, if you lose it Monopoly, I think you realize it's not

1:12.1

personal.

1:14.1

Right?

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