38. No Regrets: How to Use Failure as a Tool for Growth
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Spiritually Hungry, Monica and Michael illustrate how making mistakes and failing are part of our spiritual process, teaching us valuable lessons that help elevate our souls. Tune in as they discuss training ourselves to embrace our failures as fuel for our next success.
Failure is a great indication that we have more work to do. – Monica Berg
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| 0:00.0 | Failures do not make us a failure. Failures actually make us better people, stronger people, |
| 0:13.8 | wiser people. The point is not to take those times we fall as an indication of who we are, |
| 0:20.2 | but rather that there's something we need to pay |
| 0:21.6 | attention to and to change within ourselves or about how we're living our lives. First, failure is an |
| 0:26.8 | intrinsic part. Love it. Embrace it. It's going to happen. It's going to continue to happen. |
| 0:31.9 | You will not become wise. You will not become strong. You will not succeed. You need it. |
| 0:35.0 | Unless you are constantly failing. Second, make sure you learn from your failures. And third, never view yourself as a failure because you fail. When you're in the ocean and you're stranded, let's say, on a boat and you see like a lighthouse, you know, that's what this really is. That's what falling is. It's now saying, oh my God, that's where I need to go. And you can't actually see it. If you weren't hopelessly lost in the ocean, |
| 0:55.5 | the lighthouse wouldn't mean anything to you, right? |
| 0:57.0 | What I really hope that we express clearly is that in the right way, |
| 1:01.4 | failure becomes some of the most exciting, embraced part of our lives. |
| 1:10.7 | Welcome to spiritually hungry podcast episode 38. |
| 1:14.6 | It's almost, we'll reach our age soon. |
| 1:17.9 | How do you know we haven't? |
| 1:22.0 | So I wanted to, I looked into it last week you were talking about. |
| 1:26.5 | You mentioned Oscar Wilde and I was curious about why he was imprisoned. |
| 1:32.3 | So... |
| 1:33.3 | It's important to be curious. |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah, I just wanted to give this little fact to our listeners. He was in jail for being gay. |
| 1:39.3 | Interesting. In London? |
| 1:41.3 | Do your own research. I don't know if it was in London. It was the... It's like that's what you're going to... Like there's so many other things I would ask other than in London. Like, really, wow, what year was that? Or, you know, what was the circumstance? Like, really? Was he caught? What was the circumstances? Okay, well well i'm going to tell you a story so it was |
| 2:02.2 | during the libel trial and it unearthed evidence that caused wild to drop his charges he was putting |
| 2:09.6 | against i guess the city and it led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men and then he |
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