And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and today you'll learn all about failure.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

So, what have you been up to since I spoke to your last?

Have you screwed anything up?

Have you tried to do something and then fell on your face?

And in that moment, had to admit that you 100% sucked at it. If so, good. I'm glad you did.

Because if you had nothing but success at everything you did in the last month, then you might not have made any growing room at all.

So intellectually, non-judgmentally, I bet that you fully understand that failing is an integral part of life.

You've only got to listen to some personal development podcasts for a year or so

before hearing multiple times the story of James Dyson and his thousands of failed versions of

bagless vacuum cleaner and Thomas Edison's team of people constantly failing at finding the right

element for a light bulb.

That same attitude has bought us vaccines, thinner, lighter, smartphones and more efficient cars.

I don't know how many versions of these things failed because those failures didn't stop the researchers, because they simply saw it as part of the

process. Getting it wrong until you get it right. We've all experienced this, haven't we? Trying

something, getting it wrong, maybe doing something to the best of your abilities and have people knock you back

and tell you to change it. It's not good enough. The thing is, we do not know what's going to

succeed and what's going to fail until we do them. We don't know what we're going to be

passionate about until we do something, try something.

We have to take chances.

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