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Not failing enough

My entire life I have hated failing. At anything.

My problem was instead of inspiring me to get better, I just gave up at most things when I failed. I never took the opportunity to fail, and get better at things.

Now that I am a little older I wish someone had explained things to me a little better.

I imagine I have 10,000 mistakes inside me, and every every situation is an opportunity to get ride of some of them.

Don't fail on purpose, but try everything. If you fail, it's only one more mistake out of your system.

The trouble with success is that is seems easy once you do it. Even something like changing a lightbulb seems daunting to some people, but after you have installed you first electrical outlet into your house, you will look back and laugh at how easy changing a lightbulb is.

It's difficult to see the progress you have made when there are more failures still coming.

Everything is like this, so get those mistakes out every chance you get.