Studying Failure

"Were you a person of value today or a person of profit?"

"It's really hard to fail when you're focused on serving people."

"I love it when something doesn't work. It simply means that I am focused on the wrong thing or it just needs a little tweak."

"Self-awareness is not a destination. It's an ongoing process."

"Neither the success nor the failures are what's important. What's important is what you do with them."

"When we can look back on our own experience and journey and say that the things that have benefitted me most are the most challenging then I can see that current valley low as my training grounds."

This week's Thriving Thursday comes from Episode 34 - Elevate Your Life with Lifestyle Entrepreneur and Founder of Professional Basketball Combine, Jake Kelfer

"You can't hold out and wait for perfection. You can't go, 'I'm not going to take on and try a new skill because I'm not going to be good.' You've got to jump in and be willing with sucking. You've got to jump in and be willing with failing and going, 'Ok now what do I do, and how do I pull this off?'"

"if you focus on the objects, you can really miss what you’re after"

"The wins help me reinforce what I'm doing right. The losses give me clues to accelerate my learning on what I'm doing wrong."

"It's not a setback. It's a setup for a comeback."

"Success is often found in a pile of mistakes"

This week's Thriving Thursday comes from Episode 26 - Choose Significance over Success with National Director at Nations of Coaches, Pete Wehry

"When you start to train your brain to look at failure as feedback for how you can help other people you’re going to not only learn faster but you’re going to start to recognize that absolutely everything is redeemable for purpose."

This week's Thriving Thursday comes from Episode 9 - Using Failure to Fuel You with Justin Su'a

"Good decisions have nothing to do with outcomes because we don't control outcomes. The only thing you can control is the deliberate intention that you put into making a decision."