I read something just yesterday about how to grow accustomed to failure, to deaden oneself to it, so as to succeed. It was in the book Creative Confidence about a guy who used to teach a juggling class. The first step for the students was not to start with two balls or even one. At that point, there was nothing to learn about timing or catching or the throw. The first step was to throw the balls in to the air and to simply let them.. watch them, hit the ground. Failure is a part of the process. Falling, failing, is a part of the process.

I was reminded of that tonight when I saw the below video on Facebook. This is what I need now. I wrote about failure last year in the blog posts “Failure – In The First Person”, “The Biggest Failures”, and “Getting Failures Under My Belt”. I need a bigger belt… and a larger appetite.