Fail harder next time

We humans are failures, every last one of us. Each of us has failed, is failing, and will continue to fail. Yet we somehow fear failure, and avoid it. This is fairly odd, considering how intrisic failure is to the human condition. Fearing failure is about as silly as fearing hunger or exhaustion.

If you do not believe me, here are some examples from the past few weeks alone. We discovered that 

Webtoons was not going to be a useful platform, college sports got cancelled, and the US military hegemony is also over. There are plenty of black pills to go around. Failure is everywhere. Yet it is still a good thing. Here are some of the many reasons why you want to fail:

1) It means that you have reached your limits. You are the hard out, since you did not give up, you were forced out. This allows you to know your limits, and ultimately expand them.

2) Every failure contains a lesson. If you learn this lesson, you are a lot closer to success. The 'why didn't they laugh' podcast is how Big Bear became such a phenomenal comedian: he took all his failures as opportunities to learn. There is always something to gain from failure.

3) It breaks any delusion bubbles. If you accept failure, you cannot delude yourself. If you do not accept failure, there will be the next failure, and the next, until they become impossible to deny. Failure to accept failure is the common denominator across all gamma spirals.

There are many other benefits to failure, especially if they are dealt with properly, but these three should suffice to make the point: Failure is good for you. You want to push yourself until you fail. And then you want to learn from it, and fail harder next time.