I have been interested in personal development since a long time ago. Very early in my teenage years I understood that the improvement of our lives and the lives of those around us should be a priority. Nothing seems to make more sense to me, as a human being.
This was a hobby for a long time and I voraciously devoured every piece of knowledge I could lay my hands on. The internet has made things incredibly easy when it comes to knowledge distribution and this sure is a bless, especially for personal development.
A special subject within personal development that I find particularly interesting is the way we deal with failure and with mistakes. Most people have a strong negative reaction by simply reading words like “mistake” and “failure” and this is not a surprise when we take into account that we are biologically programmed to avoid mistakes. I felt the same about failure and mistakes for my whole life until I shifted the way I think about these two subjects in order to apply a more positive connotation to them. Of course, I still avoid failure, but when it comes it doesn’t feel as bad as it used to.
It doesn’t really matter how many positive quotes about failure we memorize if we don’t dedicate some serious time to analyze this subject. But once we do, we can break free from it and this is a huge step in the path of personal development and self-improvement.
theGoodVader revolves around this idea. Being born as a happy and proud geek, I was a Star War’s fan from an early age and the character of Darth Vader represents the idea of failure and mistakes, and the possibility of ultimate redemption. He failed, he made mistakes and so will we until the end of our lives. This is the first thing to accept about failure. There is no way we can win in everything we do, unless we do nothing, and if this is the case then we just lose in the game of life.
To transcend the fear of failure is a very important step in our path of personal development and one, I believe, we can take together.
Great thinking!