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How To Get A 100% Failure Rate
Episode 2817th June 2021 • The Daily Podcast with Jonathan Doyle • Jonathan Doyle
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In today's episode I share an awesome insight about how to guarantee yourself a 100% failure rate in life. If this does not sound appealing then I have some ideas about what you can do differently.

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Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.

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Once again, welcome friends to the daily podcast.

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A little bit of encouragement for wherever you are.

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In the world and today we're sharing something from the famous

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philosopher, Soren, Kierkegaard.

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Who I'm sure you're in enormously familiar with and think about

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and read on a daily basis.

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Well, maybe you don't and if you don't, don't worry.

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I've got you covered today.

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We're going to share a great quote quote.

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From Soren Kierkegaard, listen to this.

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He says it is better.

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To try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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The result may be the same.

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But you won't be.

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We always grow more through defeats than victories.

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This seems to be an unchangeable law of the cosmos.

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Every time we have a major win.

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We're usually pretty happy.

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We're like, this is great.

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You're on top of the world and that's a good part of living, right?

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It's a great part of being human, that, that feeling of accomplishment, of

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success, of victory that we all love.

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But really the growth.

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The real growth comes through the knock-backs, the

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setbacks and the failures.

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So what Kiki God is saying here is that it's much more important than

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at least at least that we try that we get off the couch that we take the

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shot, that we actually try something.

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So, you know, for many years I was really, you know, I think

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this was a big problem for me.

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I wanted to be sure.

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I wanted to know that if I was going to do something, I'd get a result.

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And I can't always know that I couldn't always know that.

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So over time.

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I slowly learned that you just have to start that you have to try.

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So Kiki, God says here that even if you sort of fail or succeed, he goes, once

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you try, the results can go either way.

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The result may be the same, but he says you won't be, you won't be the same.

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If you try you change, even if you fail, you change, as long as you try,

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as long as you attempt something, as long as you actually get in the ring of

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life, the metaphorical boxing ring, the.

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You know, the metaphorical summit peak of life and make the

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effort you change in the process.

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And again, he says, we change more.

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We grow more through the defeats than the victories.

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So.

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You know, I was talking to, I was coaching somebody yesterday and I was

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saying to them, you know, we were mapping out a strategy, a couple of things

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that they needed to get on top of.

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And I could sense the resistance and they're going, we got to do this.

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You have to try, you have to attempt.

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I said, you can always undo this.

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You can always change your approach and maybe let it go or try whatever I said,

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but what we need to get his feedback.

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I used to teach this all the time.

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You know, that failure is feedback.

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Failure is feedback.

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Remember talking to thousands of young people a year, trying

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to teach this principle.

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Failure is feedback.

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Many of them are kind of paralyzed because they, they construed any kind of

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failure to be terminal, to be terribly serious and, and really problematic.

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But I kept teaching.

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No, it's okay.

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It's okay to get the feedback.

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Once you trying, once you making the effort.

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So I'm more time, Kiki.

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God, it is better.

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To try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Isn't that a great line.

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If you try nothing, you've got a hundred percent chance of success.

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That is a great odds.

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If you want a really mediocre life, you try nothing.

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You will get nothing.

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You will get a 100% return on investment every single time, but it's doing the

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other stuff, the stuff where you may fail.

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Where you grow and he finishes again by saying the result might be the

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same, but you won't be, we always grow more through defeats than victory.

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So here is my question to you today.

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What are you not doing?

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What are you kind of vaguely turning around in your head and thinking

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about occasionally and maybe talking about, but not actually doing

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every single one of us has got one and you've got to put yourself.

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In the fire, you got to do it.

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I said last week, I just signed up for a 255 kilometer race, uh, with

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five kilometers of vertical climbing.

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And I said to Karen yesterday, I said, you know what?

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This one's going to hurt.

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I said, I've done a lot of crazy stuff, but this one's going to hurt.

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I just realized yesterday I got a speaking engagement in another state the next day.

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Right the next day.

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So 255 kilometers, five kilometers of vertical climbing.

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And then I got to be on stage within 24 hours.

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So this is going to hurt, but you can hear it in my voice.

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I'm kind of pumped.

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I'm kind of like, you know what.

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This is going to be red hot.

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This is going to.

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This is going to be insane.

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And I want to do this forever.

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Go and physically be able to, but I'm going to grow and I'm

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going to have a shot at it.

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And, uh, I just want to encourage you as well.

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Get your feet in the fire, commit to something, say yes to something.

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Make the call, send the email, check the website, do whatever

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it is that you are avoiding.

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Because if you just sit there, you got success.

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You've got a hundred percent success.

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At achieving nothing.

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So be encouraged.

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Get out there, have a go try something.

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That's how we move forward.

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All right friends, that's it for me today, please make sure you've subscribed.

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That'd be awesome.

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All right, everybody.

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Thanks so much for listening in my name's Jonathan Doyle.

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This has been the daily podcast.

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And I'm going to have another message for you tomorrow.

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