Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,913.

Today we are talking about an incredible gift that failure brings to each one of us. And this gift

is the gift of learning, an opportunity to get better. The reason a lot of people don't put themselves in

positions to fail is because it hurts. It's embarrassing. We have this innate desire to

avoid failure and everything that comes with it. However, in your path, or on your path,

rather, to becoming a better version of yourself,

one of the perspectives you need to understand is that failure is part of the equation.

If you want to get outside of your comfort zone to get better, you need to understand that

failure is going to be part of the process. It is part of the

equation. You can't improve without failing. But one thing that will separate you from a lot of people

is that if you view failure as an opportunity to learn, if you're really able to pause and to sit in the struggle,

to sit in the adversity that failure produces and to learn from it, to be able to absorb

those lessons so that you will not have to repeat those mistakes over and over again.

Remember, we've said it before. Making new mistakes

is making progress in disguise. However, part of the process is being able to manage your emotions

and to sift through the embarrassment, sift through the tears and the struggles and the adversity

so that you can pull those lessons out to look at the situation, look at your failures as an

event and not as an identifying factor of who you are as a person.

You aren't a failure.

What you did may have come up short.

However, the lessons that are provided there are huge.

And so today, my invitation to you is to remember that anyone who has achieved anything great

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