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Will We Die if We Don’t Know?
Perhaps our greatest learning and growth comes from when things don't go well - and yet, we want things to go well and we organize our life so things will go well. If growth comes from learning from failure then the experience of failure is required for growth. That statement is totally counter to our western view of success and achievement. Failure is not a word we associate with success and in fact, most of us are afraid to fail. It creates quite a dilemma, doesn't it? I want to learn yet I'm afraid to do anything I don't know how to do because I might fail and look bad. If I fail and look bad people won’t like me and I won’t be successful. If people don’t like me and I’m not successful I’ll be lonely and I won’t be able to get a job and pay my bills. If I’m lonely and can’t pay my bills I will be sad and I will not have a home to shelter me. If I am sad and don’t have a home to shelter me I will eventually want to die or I will die on the street. Wow! No wonder we don’t want to fail; if we fail we will die (or so we think).
