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The lesson of juggling is this: A juggler has to often fail thousands of times before he is capable of learning a trick. While some people can pick up the thr
by bb88 8y ago
The lesson of juggling is this:
A juggler has to often fail thousands of times before he is capable of learning a trick. While some people can pick up the three ball cascade easily, it's rare to find one that can do a 9 ball cascade, because of the years of practice it takes to build up to just being able to attempt it.
We don't want people to experience failure, but the sad fact is that we need it to grow. 5 years ago I was a typical software engineer who was fired because my boss didn't like me. Now I fly across the country and work with companies helping them with their SaaS issues.
- Reck 8y agoAs a coincidence, today I was feeling down, looking over every major failure I had experienced in my life. This comment cheered me up! I'm glad that you have found independence, bosses who pick on employees over personal traits aren't worth it :) Hoping I can do something similar one day.
- bb88 8y agoThanks for the comment. Failures are just really inflection points in your life, and that's really all that they are. The key thing is to keep perspective. Everyone fails, and at some point, and you have to pick yourself up and dust yourself off. The major benefit out of that debacle, is that I used to live in fear about being fired. Now I don't. And there's a tremendous amount of freedom that brings. As my wife says, I have this uncanny ability to always land on my feet.
- vbuwivbiu 8y agoYes the lesson of juggling is picking things up and starting again and again. Then as soon as you master n objects the jump in difficulty to n+1 objects is exponential and even when you get it perfect your audience will be bored of it after 15 seconds.
- matwood 8y agoThis is why things like working out and power lifting in particular are such good mental teachers (also any of the fight sports like BJJ). When I was on my quest for a #500+ deadlift it took _years_ of training. I would fail over and over, with it taking months to add 5 pounds to my single at the high end. What you learn is to love the grind. You realize there is no end goal, you just keep pushing forward. Not everyday is rainbows and butterflies. Not everyday is a perfect flow day. You learn to say so what, and push forward. This is what experiencing failure does to people who get up and go again.