Embrace Failure

Welcome to a Monday motivational blog! This week, I want to discuss the importance of failure in success. Anyone who is successful has faced failure at some point in their career. Our entire creative career is built on failure, and we are very proud of that. It’s funny to me that we’ve developed into a culture of people that are afraid to fail. But the truth is, failure is a necessary ingredient in success.

I think about our career and how many times we failed in trying to do something new or deciding to go in a particular direction, and how many times we fell on our faces. But every time, we chose to get back up, dust ourselves off, and keep going. Recently, we built the Rogue community website, and we had a lot of troubleshooting. We had dozens of failed attempts to troubleshoot issues on the site. But every time it didn’t work out, we would say, “Okay, we’ve eliminated another thing that it’s not.”

In my mind, being successful has everything to do with the ability to embrace failure and learn from it. Failure is only failure if you quit.

I always think about it this way, on your deathbed, if you’re going to regret not doing this thing, then just do it, fail at it as many times as you need to. Fall on your face, pick yourself up, and keep going. Because failure is not just an ingredient, it is a necessary ingredient of success.

At the end of the day, there will always be something that gets messed up, but that’s just the par for the course. You do it, you mess something up, and next time, you do it differently. Embrace failure, learn from it, and keep moving forward.