Why you need to FAIL more often

We need to talk about something unpleasant:

Failure.

We tend to avoid failure because it makes us feel bad.
It triggers pain.
And this makes us feel unpleasant.

Our bodies are wired to maintain what’s called Homeostasis.
(Which is nothing else than a fancy word meaning “maintaining an internal balance and avoiding pain”.)

Failure reminds us that we’re not perfect.

And if you’re a perfectionist like me,
you know how bad it is to be imperfect.

But on the flip side,
most of the things in life won’t work by the first try.

Look at airplanes today:
The most secure means of transportation.

Did you know that airline accidents in the US are responsible for only 006 deaths per billion miles of air travel?

But do you think that airplanes have been built without sacrifice?
Without a LOT of failures?

Definitely not.

It was a disaster:
Over centuries, when early humans attempted to fly,
they mimicked birds falling off a cliff (and you can imagine the end of the story.)