Moment 23 - Why You Should Embrace Failure: Elizabeth Day

Uh I wanna Talk about failure. Yes. Now. Which seems like a good thing to talk about. And in your book Philosophy, you you list uh seven Failure principles.

So I w I'm sure you've done this a million times, but I think it's a good Good place to start. So the seven failure principles. Yes. Number one. Failure just is.

Yes. So that actually just feeds in with what we were talking about, which is the idea that Failure is a fact, it's inevitable. It's gonna happen to all of us. No matter how much we try to avoid it, I guarantee that it will happen. And that can feel scary, but it can also feel liberating, because once you've accepted it as a fact, there's no point in trying to avoid it. So you might as well take the risk. So acceptance of failure starts with the observation of it. Failure is a fact, but how you respond to it. is within your control. Whether you decide to feel like a failure for many years after the thing that's happened or

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