Failing Fully to Learn Faster

Your failure is completely useless if you did not actually try your hardest. Most of us walk

around using half-hearted effort as a shield because it is a defense mechanism we all have installed

in our brains. If you start a business but don't really go all in, or you ask someone

out but make it look like a joke, or you study for the exam only the night before,

you are building a psychological safety net. If you fail, you can shrug it

off and say well I didn't really try anyway so it doesn't count. It protects your

ego. It keeps you from feeling like you are inherently not good enough.

But here is the massive problem with that approach and why it is keeping you stuck in the