Live - Build - Change: The Christian Faith And Business Show

It seems like everybody is deathly afraid of failure. But failure is a good thing. Yes, it is. Even though it’s not always an enjoyable experience, or we’ve been taught through our upbringing and schooling that an “F” (failure) is bad - the reality is that there are lessons failure can teach you that nothing else can. As you listen to my thoughts on this issue of failure I want you to open up your mind to the possibility, the likelihood, that failure is really a good thing… a very good thing. [2:39] Failure is what teaches us from childhood. Why are we so afraid of it? If you think about the way we learn from early childhood on, it’s by failing. Walking, talking, schooling - all of them put us in contexts where we have to master something we did not know before. We have to make the attempt to do things that feel very uncomfortable. But we do it anyway - and we succeed in time. Failure is a teacher, a companion, a friend in some ways when we are younger. So what happens to us that makes us so afraid of failin