#318 Chasing Failure: Real Life Lessons from One Man’s Shot at the NBA with Ryan Leak

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Action Plan:</span> <a href= "https://jimharshawjr.com/action"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://jimharshawjr.com/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">ACTION<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Free Clarity Call:</span> <a href="https://jimharshawjr.com/action"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://jimharshawjr.com/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">APPLY</span></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail? How would it change your life?</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ryan Leak is an author, speaker, executive coach, and filmmaker. He is widely known as the groom who pulled off</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Surprise Wedding</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">where he proposed to his girlfriend and married her on the same day. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The number one question he still gets is, “What if she said no?” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was a risk he was willing to take.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The video going viral led him to think about what others would do if they weren’t afraid of hearing “no” or of being met with failure. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ryan realized that many people never pursue their hopes and dreams because they pre-calculate their own failure. They quit before they ever even try.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, he asked himself: What would he want to do if he knew he could not fail? The answer was easy— he’d be in the NBA— and since the only way to know if that dream could be a reality was to try, that is exactly what he did.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, Ryan joins us to amplify why our show is called Success Through Failure. Listen in as we talk about procrastination, “perfection pressure,” how</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">chasing failure will take you further than chasing su