Hello and in today's

welcome 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 be talking

about how to embrace failure. More to

come on that in a moment, but first let's settle in with the sound of the bells. So when I was in college I got very interested in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

If you're not familiar with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu,

it's a ground martial art that specifically focuses

on submissions, so like tapping out your opponent.

And I very quickly got obsessed with this sport.

I found the art of it to be really beautiful and intricate.

So I still remember this summer that I devoted to just going really deep into

Jiu-Jitsu.

And the summer stands out to me because it was the summer that I painted my house, my parents house with my brother.

And so I would train Jiu-Jitsu in the morning, paint my house all day, and then train Jiu-Jitsu in the evening.

And this was my life almost seven days a week

that summer.

And boy, was that first month of training tough? Dem demoralizing is a better word, because I got my buck kicked.

Now obviously when you're starting out in a martial art or anything, you're going to be, most likely, the lowest ranked person there or a handful

of people that are on the same level.

But the time slots that I was training in always had people that were ranked higher than

me, so every grappling match I went into always had people that were ranked higher than me.

So every grappling match I went into,

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