The Surprising Truth About Failure That Took Me Years to Accept—And How It Changed Everything
I used to think failure meant I wasn’t good enough. That if I’d been smarter, more prepared, more disciplined, I would have avoided it altogether.
So I built my life around preventing it. I overprepared for client sessions. I rehearsed difficult conversations until they felt scripted. I said yes to opportunities I wasn’t ready for because declining felt like admitting weakness.
The irony? All that failure-avoidance made me rigid, exhausted, and frankly less effective at my work.
It took a workshop that went spectacularly wrong to crack that thinking wide open.
