Failure

The Art of Accomplishment

Brett Kistler

Management, Mental Health, Personal Development, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 269 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Our idea of failure and how we respond to it dramatically shapes our identity and, consequently, how we live our lives. When we fear failure as an end-all-be-all rather than viewing it as an opportunity to learn and iterate, it can significantly hinder our personal growth, creativity, and ability to reach our full potential. In this episode, Brett and Joe explore the transformative power of embracing failure as part of life's journey. They discuss: • How shifting focus from outcomes to effort can lead to unexpected and remarkable results • Strategies for reframing failure as a stepping stone to success • Real-life examples of how embracing what we think of as “failure” leads to better results and breakthroughs

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0:00.0	In his mind he failed, and in his perception he failed, and literally within a year, he was back on meth, living just a shit life.
0:13.0	His family, they didn't have any money. He had abandoned them. He just was like, fuck it, I'm out.
0:18.0	Because of this idea of failure, because it was a fucking idea, it was just an idea that he had failed.
0:27.5	I'm Brett Kistler here today with my co-host, Joe Hudson.
0:30.5	Hey, Brett, how's it going?
0:31.9	And this is the art of accomplishment, where we explore living the life you want with enjoyment
0:36.6	and ease. On today's
0:38.2	episode, we're going to talk about failure. Yeah, yeah, we are. We're going to talk about failure.
0:43.2	The thing about failure that is so critical is that it is just an idea. And it is an idea that when
0:48.9	you have it can totally stop you in your tracks, can make it so that you don't want to try anymore.
0:55.1	It is a structure in the brain called the Hibenula that basically its job is to make sure that
1:01.3	you don't fail. And so if you have this idea of failure, your capacity to keep on trying and
1:09.0	iterating goes way down. And so to really understand failure
1:12.0	can absolutely transform the way that you do personal development work and the way that you achieve
1:18.3	stuff in the world. So to me, it's critical to think about failure differently than most people do.
1:23.8	One thing that I noticed right there is this immediate distinction between the story or the
1:27.8	idea of failure and any objective reality that's going on. Correct. Well, there is no failure.
1:33.8	I mean, if you take a look at, say, Sam Walton, right? So this guy starts Walmart. You know,
1:38.3	some people think he's evil. Some people think he's great. But whatever it was, he was on a boat
1:42.7	coming back from World War II. And he thought to himself, you know, autocracies in the world. The problem with them is that they don't have a middle class. I need to support the middle class of America. So his way to do it was to increase the buying power of the middle class, give stock options to clerks. He did all this stuff to help the middle class. Oddly, you know,
2:01.4	it changed over time, but that was his thing. That's what he wanted to do. And he failed.
2:07.7	The first time, first five and dime failed. Second five and dime, failed. Third five and dime,
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