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Seth Godin Quote on Facing Failure So That You Can Keep Playing (and Win)

    “If I fail more than you do, I win.  Built into this notion is the ability to keep playing.  If you get to keep playing, sooner or later you’re gonna make it succeed.  The people who lose are the ones who don’t fail at all, or the ones who fail so big they don’t get to play again.”

    Seth Godin

    Beyond the Quote (121/365)

    If you try and you fail—and you quit—you lose. If you try and you fail—and you adjust and try again—you win. The ultimate failure in life isn’t the failures we inevitably stumble upon from our trials, it’s the failure to not try (or to stop trying) at all. Without trial in life, you defer to passivity. You choose to watch rather than play. And while it’s fun to watch sometimes, playing is where all of the magic happens. Playing is the active process of interacting with your surroundings in a way that allows you to learn. When you try, your whole being makes an incalculable number of adjustments and improvements so that you can better play moving forward. You just can’t do that from the sideline.

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      “Our progress is paved with mistakes, failures, and defeats, and it’s our resilience that keeps us keeping on.  Every misstep is a teacher, and not all the things and people we lose in life end up being losses.  Our obsession with winning can cost us much more than losing a healthy outlook when life doesn’t go our way.  There’s always a lesson, a nugget of wisdom or a jewel waiting when things look like they won’t be going in our favor; we just have to be willing to pay attention and do some digging if need be.  Once we remind ourselves to find opportunity in any situation, there is no loss, just learning.  Failure isn’t the opposite of success, it’s a path to it.” ~ Humble the Poet, Things No One Else Can Teach Us (Page 268)

      Things No One Else Can Teach Us [Book]

        Things No One Else Can Teach Us by Humble the Poet

        By: Humble the Poet

        From this Book: 49 Quotes

        Book Overview:  The rapper, spoken word artist, poet, blogger, social media influencer, and international bestselling author of Unlearn delivers unorthodox lessons for shifting our perceptions and learning to create silver linings from our most difficult moments.  Every one of us endures setbacks, disappointments, and failures that can incapacitate us. But we don’t have to let them. Instead, we can use these events as opportunities for growth. In Things No One Else Can Teach Us, Humble the Poet flips the conventional script for happiness and success, showing us how our most painful experiences can be our greatest teachers.

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        Post(s) Inspired by this Book:

        1. 17 Humble the Poet Quotes about Comparing Yourself to Others (and How To Stop)
        2. Humble the Poet Quote on Emotional Intelligence and How To Deal With “Less Desirable” Emotions (Beyond the Quote 237/365)
        3. Humble the Poet Quote on Reducing Social Media Usage (Beyond the Quote 86/365)
        4. Humble the Poet Quote on Managing Expectations and Going From “High” to “Low” to “None” (Beyond the Quote 79/365)
        5. Humble the Poet Quote on Comparing Ourselves To Others (and Why That Can Be Dangerous) (Beyond the Quote 77/365)
        6. Albert Camus Quote on The Invincible Summer Inside (Beyond the Quote 65/365)
        7. How To Separate Actions from Identity—An Important Excerpt from Things No One Else Can Teach Us.

          “People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand.  Faulty tools produce faulty results.  Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results.  It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it.  It’s partly fate.  It’s partly inability.  Its’s partly… unwillingness to learn?  Refusal to learn?  Motivated refusal to learn?” ~ Jordan Peterson, via 12 Rules for Life (Page 75)

            “Failure does not deserve to be addressed with recrimination or pity.  Rather, failure must be honored for the insight it provides.  Failure is the grist for learning; it is our teacher.” ~ Mark Divine, The Way of the Seal

              “Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.  The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is the fear of failure.  Yet failure is essential to success in any endeavor.  Failure tests us and allows us to grow.  It offers us lessons and guides us along the path of enlightenment.  The teachers of the East say that every arrow that hits the bull’s eye is the result of one hundred misses.  It is a fundamental Law of Nature to profit through loss.  Never fear failure.  Failure is your friend.” ~ Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

                “He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them.  He lives on the principle of ‘nothing attempted, nothing gained’ and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.” ~ Wilfred Peterson, The Art of Living

                The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery [Book]

                  The Rise by Sarah Lewis

                  By: Sarah Lewis

                  From this Book:  6 Quotes

                  Book Overview:  It is one of the enduring enigmas of the human experience: many of our most iconic, creative endeavors from Nobel Prize winning discoveries to entrepreneurial inventions and works in the arts are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts. The Rise explores the inestimable value of often ignored ideas the power of surrender for fortitude, the criticality of play for innovation, the propulsion of the near win on the road to mastery, and the importance of grit and creative practice. From an uncommonly insightful writer, The Rise is a true masterwork.

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                  Post(s) Inspired by this Book:

                    “You learn nothing from your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.”

                    Dee Hock, Founder and Former CEO, Visa International

                      “The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Leadership Gold

                        “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” ~ Henry Ford

                          Lose yourself to improve yourself.

                            Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

                              “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.” ~ Muhammad Ali

                                “If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.” ~ Zig Ziglar

                                  “The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.” ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

                                    “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.” ~ Colin Powell

                                      “Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That’s because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned.”

                                      Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad (Page 207)