What Life Lesson Stuck With You The Most?

Winners don’t fail.

They learn.

I’m sure you’ve seen that before.

Maybe whispered it to yourself as you stared at the person in the mirror looking back at you.

It’s a mindset shift.

Somehow, in all the rigid training to become good employees, failing got equated with something bad.

F on your report card?

Means you’re a loser.

Ha. Ha. You can’t do advanced physics to measure the distance between stars using light refraction.

Or start a business that goes under.

Ha. Ha. You’re a loser. A failure. No good for anything except what they tried to teach you how to be.

But a learner is something dangerous.

A learner doesn’t fail.

Sure, they might not make it work once, twice or ten times, but each of those setbacks are temporary.

It is a hard mindset to change, and harder still to maintain.

Because once the world around starts to see that the scarlet F pinned to your chest doesn’t matter and you’re treating it like training, they start to gang up.