Finding Strength in Failure
Sweet Bites for December 27, 2024
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Welcome to another edition of Sweet Bites, Mind Candy’s bite-sized newsletter with thought-provoking finds to send you into the weekend with.
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🦉 Wisdom
“The benefit of failure is an objectivity that success simply can't offer. If you win right away—if your first foray into any new area is a runaway success—you'll have absolutely no way to gauge if you're really just that brilliant or it was a total fluke and you got incredibly lucky.”
Maria Konnikova
Source: The Biggest Bluff
💬 Reflection for the Weekend
Failure is not weakness.
Failure is strength.
More often than not, when we fail somewhere, we rebuild that area and make it stronger than before.
With the right outlook on life, failing can be a superpower.
Failing and getting back up is grit, not fragility.
📚 This Week’s Monday Meditation
✏️ This Week’s Wednesday Wisdom
🏆 Winners vs Losers
Andrew Huberman of the Huberman Lab Podcast once explained something a friend told him.
“There are basically two kinds of people in life. There are winners and there are losers and the definition is this: losers take things that happen to them and that they feel inside that suck and they wallow and they use it for self or outward destruction.
Winners take whatever they feel, they feel it, it sucks and they transmute it into things that are good for themselves and for the world. Period. End of story.”
💭 Thought on Happiness
In the below video, a professor explains an approach all can take when thinking about their happiness. By properly putting time and attention to the things that will make the. Its impact on our happiness and well being, we set ourselves up for success. But when we allow others to dictate our happiness or we prioritize our happiness after the fact, we will never be content with life.
💡 Idea to Think About
If you enjoyed Adam Grant’s Note above, then you may like this illustration on the concept.
🎥 Video I Loved This Week
Until next time,
D.A. DiGerolamo
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