Fail more, coward 🖤

Dedicated to Weird Writer and her black heart, who knew better than to hesitate. Are you the person you’ve always wanted to be? If not, do you know how to change? If you don’t, are you unsure how to learn? My favorite secret I ever learned is that you don’t actually need to know how to improve to improve. You can instead fail faster. The world is complicated. There are more correct answers in books and blog posts than you could ever hope to learn. Failure teaches you the relevant questions you must answer to improve. Failure is cringe, and understandably avoided. However, the extent to which most of us avoid failure has more to do with pride and loss aversion than a rational weighing of pros and cons. It is childish to believe that successful people literally only succeed. Why do you think yourself too good for failure? Do you think any intelligent adult will believe you if you pretend you never fail? Hesitation upholds your competency kayfabe at the cost of making you less competent.…