Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua episode 1229. I've been talking to a lot of

coaches and a lot of players recently that are going through tough times in their career or in this

season. We often talk about learning from failure and how pain teaches and that's all great. I absolutely agree with that.

But what we don't often talk about much is how embarrassing losing is, how painful failure is,

and how it could eat at you, not just in your sport, but outside of your sport.

It could affect the way food

taste. It could affect your relationships, how you sleep, all of those different things. And it is very,

very difficult. And so if you are experiencing loss or pain of failure or of not getting what you

want, this episode is for you. I read this a little excerpt recently.

It says this, pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part. And sometimes it isn't.

But either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things.

It teaches you and it tells you that you're alive. And I really like that. Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't

feel it. And I think it's so powerful. If you are feeling the pain of losing, the pain of loss,

the pain of failure, then the question that you need to ask yourself is, okay, what can I learn from

this? And there's many different types of pain. There's sharp pain. There's dull pain. There's persistent pain. There's little pain. There's

deep pain. And it comes in different flavors. And have the wherewithal, the pause and say,

what kind of pain is this? And to know that pain is temporary. And it will incite action and change.

If you're experiencing pain, that might lead you to change the way you're doing things,

change the way you're viewing things, change the people you are around.

And it might cause you to create these adjustments.

And so my invitation to you is to use whatever pain you're currently feeling

as a teacher. Maybe you don't need to change anything. Maybe it's just part of the process,

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