“ACK! Failure! No, no, no, no! HARD LIMIT!”⁣
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That was me.⁣

I was a gifted child. If you were one, you know what I mean. Everything was easy. Failure just DIDN’T happen.⁣

Until it did.⁣
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And then, for me anyway, it was devastating.⁣
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How can this be? I’m not perfectly good at everything the first time?⁣
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And so fear of failure set in.⁣

Now, you don’t have to be a formerly gifted child to understand fear of failure. At all.⁣

MOST people experience it in their lives.⁣

For some, it’s crippling.⁣
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For others, maybe not so much, or only really affects one area of their lives.⁣
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Like dating and love.⁣
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Because that failure, for some reason, seems to strike to the heart of who we are in ways that other failures often don’t.⁣

After all, it HURTS.⁣
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But the thing is, we HAVE to fail to learn. Because when we get things right automatically, we often don’t know WHY. And we don’t learn anything.⁣
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I’ve written about getting rejected more often, which is a type of failure, and why you should do it.⁣
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https://datingkinky.com/blog/general-love-romance/how-and-why-to-get-rejected-more-often/
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And our PLUS Members have access to an amazing presentation by JustRob from Jacksonville, FL on the topic of “Failure Isn’t an Option, It’s a Requirement.”⁣
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https://datingkinky.com/webinars/special-events/cake-presents-failure-isnt-an-option-its-a-requirement/
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I agree. I seek out ways to fail more creatively (and sometimes I fail at failing, and that’s awesome, too!), because I believe there is something to learn from every failure, even if it’s only “Don’t do THAT again.”⁣

LOL!⁣
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What are YOUR thoughts on failure?⁣