Are You Copacetic With Failure?

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:29.8	Raise your hand if you're totally copacetic with failure.
0:33.9	You know, I don't know why I keep doing that.
0:35.9	This is radio.
0:37.1	I cannot see your hands, but I'm imagining them.
0:42.1	And I'm imagining that in 5 million people who interact with this program at some point,
0:48.3	one of you raised your hand and said, yeah, I'm cool with failure.
0:53.5	Yeah, I am totally, no, nobody is.
1:00.0	When we're little kids, if you have siblings, oh my gosh, or next door neighbor kids that come over,
1:05.2	the competition is right there. It's built in to the animal.
1:10.3	We are not plants or minerals we're animals and we're mammals
1:16.2	vertebrates mammals on top of that my god so there are certain things we have to do that are just
1:23.9	animal and that's survive.
1:29.6	And if you look throughout the animal kingdom,
1:36.9	there's all this fighting going on for territory food and reproduction.
1:41.6	And this is usually not done sweetly.
1:49.4	It's done, yeah. You ever see crocodiles when they're making more crocodiles? It doesn't look pretty. Okay. Anyway, but if you're a crocodile,
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