Everyone knows how to roll with failure.
Do you remember what your parents said when you lost the championship game or got cut from the school play? "Failure makes you stronger. It's a character builder." Not bad advice, but your parents drastically undersold the value of failure.
Take my former commercial real estate career – my most recent failure. The whole experience of letting go and realigning my skills made me a stronger person, but six years in a dog-eat-dog industry did more than that. I left more networked, a social media expert, a strong salesman, and a leader.
Skills that I will leverage and have leveraged to advance my career.
Millennials shy away from things that might not work out because we think failure only makes us stronger. We all want more. We want admiration, we want money, and we want to find love. What if I told you failure builds those things? In fact, there's no way around it.
Does that compel you to act?
You say failure makes you stronger. I say that’s just the tip of the iceberg.