Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about embracing

failure.

More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay, so let's start by sharing a Michael Jordan quote.

Some of you may be familiar with this one.

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.

So I think in the personal growth space, the idea of failure, quote unquote failure, let's

just call it perceived failure, is spoken about in the context of the journey to success.

I don't think there's anything new there.

If you've dipped your toes in the waters of growth and healing, chances are you've explored

how to be in relationship to perceived setbacks and understanding their role in the larger

growth journey.

And yet in my experience, it can be really hard to put that into action when you actually

experience something that does feel like a failure or something that you've been building

toward or working toward or really had yourself set on that just didn't go your way or went

completely the opposite way.

When we're in that, it can be quite hard to reframe the experience as a positive.

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