Contrary to the negativity that surrounds failure and how many people would rather not fail at anything, multiple award-winning Hollywood actor, Will Smith seems to have a different opinion.
Will has adviced that we should embrace failure by living “where you’re almost certain you’re gonna fail.”
In a video that since gone viral on social media, he says that people should fail early and fail often, as failure “is a massive part of being able to be successful”
Speaking further, he says “you have to seek failure, failure is where all of the lessons are.”
Below is a full text of his video:
“Fail early, fail often, fail forward. It is a little bit frustrating to me when people have a negative relationship with failure. Failure is a massive part of being able to be successful you have to get comfortable with failure, you have to seek failure, failure is where all of the lessons are.
“You know, you go to the gym and work out, you actually wanna take your muscles to the point where you get to failure because that’s the point where adaptation is, growth is. Successful people fail a whole lot because they extract the lessons from their failures and they use the energy, and they use the wisdom to come around to the next phase of success.
“You have to live at the edge of your capabilities, you got to live where you’re almost certain you’re gonna fail and that’s the reason for practice. Practice is controlled failure, you get into your limit, get into your limit, you can’t do this, you can’t lift that until you get to the point where all of a sudden, your body makes the adjustment and then you can do it.
“Failure helps you to recognize the areas where you need to evolve. So fail early, fail often, fail forward.”
