The Best Minute: Good failure, good mistakes, and good discipline
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I. James Clear on the best kind of failure:
“Failure is most useful when you give your best effort. If you fail with a lackluster effort, you haven't learned much. Perhaps you could have succeeded with a proper focus. But if your best effort fails, you have learned something valuable: this way doesn't work.”
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II. Frank Wilczek on making good mistakes:
“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems, and that’s a mistake.”
2 IDEAS FROM ME
I. Disciplined people are simply people who have created good habits.
The people in your life who appear the most disciplined are not that way because of some natural talent they have that you don’t. Rather, they have created healthy and wise habits that guide their life. We all have daily and weekly habits that we do without much thought. Instead of relying on willpower every week, consider creating a small new habit that you stick to until it becomes a routine. Do that in enough areas in your life and people will assume that you must have the magical “discipline” gene as well.
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II. While failing is hard in the moment, we rarely look back on things we genuinely tried on that didn’t work with shame and regret work once enough time has passed. Is there anything keeping you from trying something new because of the short-term pain it might cause, even if you will be much happier that you tried in the future? And who knows, maybe it will actually work.
1 INTERESTING FACT
A woman once survived falling from an airplane at 33,000 feet high.
Vesna Vulovic holds the world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. The Serbian flight attendant was the only survivor of the JAT Airways plane crash of 1972. Following the crash, she was in a coma and could not walk for 10 months. She managed to live until the age of 66.
Source: Facts
1 QUESTION TO LEAVE YOU WITH
If you knew you had 20 years left to live, what would you do differently? 20 years is a long time, so why not start implementing some of those things now?
P.S. Is Yankee Doodle ok?
