importance of failure in life

 

Why we Fail and How to Succeed

people can lose their lives in libraries

and he was right

they should really be warned this 

and surely librarians would already

rule the world

and this led me to a question i wanted

to ask today

is a lack of knowledge the reason that

people are actually

unsuccessful or is it a lack of action

that they have took over time

now probably a little bit of context

would actually help

go back to when i was at school i wasn't

the best student i never really saw the

real benefits of a lot of the things i

did. M

y science teachers used to seem to take

great pleasure and send me home with

these below grade

reports and it was never fun handing

over to my parents but at the same time

i was never really someone who'd really

committed i'd never really tried i've

never really

gone all at it but this is the big

problem that we've got

suddenly i'm 15 years old i'm only

allowed in school one day a week and

they say to me you can go and

scheme for the others now back then

being a chef was pretty cool

and i got inspired by the naked chef and

it was actually jamie oliver's brand

so first off i'm immersed in work and i

love it i've got passion i've got

driving 

determination and anytime that we're

passionate with things

it doesn't feel like effort and i

progressed

soon i'm quite young and i'm running my

own restaurant

but then bang overnight my passion

disappeared my drive dropped

suddenly i felt trapped suddenly i felt

like 

i was in a place i couldn't get out.

now i've got really a choice go and work

in a local supermarket which i didn't

really want to do 

or someone said to me go into sales so

sales it was 

now this is the good bit first day broke

all single records

second day people have got me on their

shoulders and i carry them out chanting

my name

that did not happen i literally was

terrible like i 

sucked i couldn't close a door let alone a deal

this was a big shock to the system after

a bit of convincing.

someone that worked there took me under

their wing and gave me a bit of guidance

gave me a bit of hope they inspired me

to take action

 and i

started to really learn i became

immersed that again

 now i'm taking action

this is the point when this first phrase

ever really came about of

if knowledge was actually enough to be

successful

well why don't the librarians already

rule the world

i used to imagine all these those big

beautiful libraries with all the books

from all the ages with the wisest

smartest most successful people

 and what's it brought them

did they get all their goals did they

get their dreams they'd been exposed

to all of the knowledge i could possibly

need then i got thinking about my

teachers

they were experts in their field and did

they do what they want

were they living the life of their

dreams were they getting the best out of

it. 

then i met this guy now this guy

by his own admission was not the

smartest cookie in the jar

but he was full of passion .

i want you to imagine something 

i've got a button now that i can press

and it can give you all of the knowledge

on any subject you want maybe you're

gonna choose art

maybe you'll choose science maybe you'll

play the piano what about this

what about there's another button on

there and this would give you

unwavering levels of confidence

unwavering levels of self-confidence

belief

persistence determination 

because if knowledge was the whole point

behind this if

exposure to knowledge was what we needed

to become successful the librarians

would already have took over

i don't think that knowledge is

necessarily the problem

think about the phones that we're

watching this on right now

they're as powerful as most of the computer

we're here swiping left swiping right

and playing candy crush

we've got google on our phones we've got

the exposure

to all the information so why are we not

achieving all the goals why are we not

achieving all the things that we wanted

i think the problem is a lot of the

information that comes through to us

it's coming through on

almost a wonky antenna the information

is coming in but it's just not

resonating with us

in the right way and then we don't take

the action that's needed to make sure

it actually works if we think about any

of the greatest stories.

and the very thing that stops one person

pushes

another person on strives them to

success that's the catalyst that helps

them

and when we talk about a lot of this

stuff out there we talk about

failure i personally don't think that

failure is

the opposite end to success i think

they're on the same path and

you've got to go through a degree of

failure to get to the success but here's

the problem a lot of us

as soon as we get our failure we stop

we give up but

we

didn't talk in the first attempt

but now as adults we're deciding we

should only try it once or twice or

maybe three times

i think the big problem we've got is

we need more faith in ourselves more

commitment in ourselves

more continual execution on the very

things .

 i think this is the big problem that we've got

we need to become unconsciously

competent in so many areas and a lot of

us are just aware of a situation

we're aware of a knowledge that's not

enough to implement it to a level

that it works imagine driving your car

yep here's a book on it off you go i

think we'd have a few crashes

imagine getting exposure to the handbook

on how to fly a helicopter off you go

up you go i wouldn't fancy getting in

that would you

but we're doing it with our lives with

our knowledge and with our execution

think of it like this you're not sat

there now thinking about breathing right

well you are now i've just said about it

but in so many other areas of our life

everything that we do now had to be

learned from walking and talking

playing the piano riding the bike all of

these things had to be learned and we

fell and we fall

and we continue to fall until we get to

the stage of being better

a lot of the stuff we're not

unconsciously competent with so it won't

work

i don't think the fact that the new

knowledge is always the key

i think we're the key and we need to

unlock it with those tools that we have.