Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,800. Thanks to all of you,

have been with this podcast for a little bit for a little while. I've been getting some good feedback and

I'm grateful for your thoughts and when you share how this podcast has helped you. Today we're

talking about learning from past failures and

mistakes. Our brain is a powerful mechanism and it's interesting whenever we struggle in something,

you fail, it's embarrassing, it's, you experience strong emotional feelings. What's going to

happen is your brain's going to protect you from

never wanting to experience that again. And so it's going to pull you back from going for it.

It's going to pull you back from putting yourself out there and putting yourself in situations where

failure is likely and in some cases inevitable.

When that happens, this is a good technique to practice.

You want to look back at your past experiences, particularly those experiences where you fail,

where it's emotionally troubling and triggering that and where it's causing you to play scared or to hold back from giving your absolute best because you don't want the pain of defeat to fill your mind and

your heart once again. And one way to help you is to look back at those past

moments and to ask yourself two questions. How did that troublesome time make me stronger?

And what did I learn from that difficult experience? When you're able to look back and to see

that hard experience and pull out the lessons and see how that experience made you

stronger and made you better.

When you're able to change the story you tell yourself about that adversity that you

overcame, you're going to realize something.

You're going to realize that that adversity made you a better

version of who you are today. That adversity didn't become a stumbling block, but rather a stepping

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