Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host Corey Muscarra and in today's episode we're going to talk about failure.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. The Okay, so I'd like to start this episode with a quote from the great Michael Jordan.

He says, I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games.

26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life,

and that is why I succeed. That is why I succeed.

So there's something I find refreshing and reassuring about this quote.

In some ways it's classic personal development speak,

where all most likely familiar with this idea that we're not going to get anywhere significant

without some degree of failure. This has spoken a lot about in any basic personal development book that you're going to have to fall down in order to get back up and that's just part of the journey and you know the sooner we can embrace failure,

the sooner we're gonna get success.

So it's not like there's anything radical here.

But sometimes the most important ideas

are ones that we do need to hear over and over and over again.

And I do think it's easy when we look at people who quote unquote have success.

Whatever that success might be, maybe a certain form of happiness, compassion, contentment, or more traditional ideas of success such as being a really good basketball player like Michael Jordan or having a certain amount of money.

We can look at those end points and easily forget the journey and what had to happen to get there and I'm watching the

documentary about Michael Jordan called the The Last Dance on Netflix which I

recommend it's really good.

And it's just easy to see this person that's so successful.

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