What Happens When You Fail In Front Of 24 Million People 🤯🤯🤯
When I was 4 years old I was riding a tandem bike at Donald Duck Kindergarten.
Yes, that was what my kindergarten was called.
It kinda looked like this...
But obviously much cooler.
It was red like a Ferrari and wasn't a Bratz Doll bike 😂 #thanksgoogle
I was hooning around and standing up pedalling as hard as possible (which the teachers told me not to do) and, it beats me how this happened but, I managed to fly over the handle bars and break the impact with my face and slide along the concrete.
Not my helmet, my face.
Think Phantom of the Opera but instead of a white mask covering the majority of my face, it was blood and scratches.
And that wasn't even the worst part, I could hardly feel any pain with the amount of shock I was in.
The worst part was the next week or two because every time I would try and talk or laugh, the scab would crack. That was a b*tch.
So, why am I telling you this story?
I was told countless amount of times from the teachers to sit down and ride the bike carefully but I didn't listen and paid the price #rebel
But failure is one of the main methods in which we learn.
I never stood up on that tandem bike again.
Have you ever touched a hot iron even though you were told not to touch it?
Most of you, yeah.
Every touched it again?
None of you.
Because the hard way is how we learn!
And these days we are too soft to try anything outside of our comfort zone because we're scared that people will laugh at us failing.
$hit, I was kicked off a reality TV show in front of the whole population of Australia and I'm doing just fine.
That's 24 million people, I'm sure you can handle a bit of banter from friends and family.
Failure is the seed to success that you only see when it starts to grow.
And the more seeds you sow, the more harvest you will reap.
Now I don't think you need to kiss the pavement to learn a lesson or two but I do think you need to get over yourself and put yourself out there more.
Give things a go.
Think about when you were a baby learning to walk.
The amount of failures you had were enormous but look at you walk/run/jump/sprint now.
That is the seed of failure (the falls), growing into success (your ability to walk).
So join Team Brock Ashby, give it a go.
Stop protecting yourself from what you think is failure that is actually success!