Failure: A Secret Strategy for Success

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If failure can be avoided at all, it is only by setting your most ambitious goals on some mental shelf and allowing them to gather dust. At some point, everyone who tries fails. What distinguishes successful people from the rest is that they view failures as experiments. They learn, refine, and continue. When they achieve their initial goal, they set a more ambitious one and begin the process all over. Failure, they recognize, is an essential part of success.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subscribe in</span> <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/philosophy-for-flourishing/id1516846670"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Apple Podcasts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2ygYLi3sTed0DkRWzUb95C"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Spotify</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or wherever you’re listening right now.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook:</span> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/objectivestandard"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.facebook.com/objectivestandard</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter:</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/ObjStdInstitute"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://twitter.com/ObjStdInstitute</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">LinkedIn:</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/company/objectivestandardinstitute/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> https://www.linkedin.com/company/objectivestandardinstitute/</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Email Jon at</span> <a href= "mailto:jon@objectivestandard.org"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">jon@objectivestandard.org</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">with questions, comments, or topic suggestions.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also check out:</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael Jordan “Failure” commercial for Nike:</span> <a href= "https://youtu.be/45