Not all failure is created equal. Because not all failures have the same cause.
Two people can both want the same thing and fail to achieve it for different reasons. The person who commits time, effort, and emotion experiences different failure than the person who doesn't try.
The difference is Honest Failure vs. Chosen Failure. The person who tries fails honestly, while the person who doesn't try chooses to fail. You can fail honestly, or you can choose to fail.
Honest failure is when you miss a desired result despite intense, committed effort. Chosen failure is when you miss a desired outcome because of an absence of effort. They both fail to produce the intended outcome, but they are not the same failure.
That you fail matters less than how you fail.
When you put in focused, disciplined, energized effort but still fail, that's honest. When you give weak, sloppy, half-hearted, or no effort and fail, that's chosen.
Honest failure is worthy. Chosen failure is weak. The difference in impact between the two is massive.
I'll tell you more about those differences tomorrow.
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