Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Do you want to hear a fun fact about failure?

I know that failure has spoken a lot about in all the circles, all the self-help circles,

all the coaching circles, all over social media, failure, failure, failure, celebrate failure.

I get it and I'm a bit tired of it myself.

But I would like to offer you this way of thinking because for me it's very helpful.

And this switch in thinking was one that I made years ago.

And it's something that I think comes with time, comes with keeping an open mind and also

with self-awareness. But it's really useful. It's this. After you fail, fail at anything, right?

Maybe it's a business venture. Maybe it's a diet. Maybe it's taking a step in a direction that's

completely new for you and you fall flat on your face for whatever reason. After you fail,

the probability of your success actually goes up. Right. We get that in the reverse sometimes.

We think if we failed, oh, it just means we're not capable,

we don't have the goods, we can't do it, it isn't possible, this is a waste of time.

My friends, the opposite, the opposite is true. When you fail, the probability of your success

goes up. Why? There are two reasons. The first is this. You now know

more than you did before you took the action, right? You are wiser now. You know something. You know

which way not to go. We can only learn this through doing, not from preparing, not from theorizing,

not from just thinking, thinking, thinking. Even when we make a mistake or receive a perceived

failure in our life, we're wiser as a result, bringing us closer to success, just logically

speaking. Right? It's like Edison who said, I never failed at creating

the light bulb. I just figured out 10,000 ways that didn't work. Now, I'm not saying we have to do

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