Experiment

I'm going to turn 32 in a couple of months.

I'm thinking about experimenting with the following idea while I'm 32: I am not afraid to fail.

I can reevaluate when I turn 33 and go back to worrying about it then if I need to. I think it will be an interesting year. I am going to try to get a head start, even before my birthday.

Comments

It's a great idea. The importance of failure is underrated. Engineers recognize its importance. We've even got to see some of the results, publicly. Think back to all of the old footage of rocketships blowing up on the launch pad. Not enough academic disciplines teach what to do with failure though.

It also raises the question, can you have success without failure? Don't you need failure to know that you have successful?

Granted, some failures are more painful than others. Flunking out of school was quite painful for me, but it put forth many lessons that helped me succeed later on. Some people are devastated by a failed marriage or relationship. But, it can provide lessons for the next one. So long as the failure is not life threatening, it should not be feared.

[Bill Altreuter]

This is the perfect age to take that approach, although I would say, from the available evidence, that you have jumped your own starting line. Actually, any age is the right age, but it is the best way to go at life and the son one realizes it, the greater the potential for an exciting, happy existence. I was just a little bit older, and I shouldn't have waited.

[B]

It is almost a must to push yourself until you fail. You will expand your comfort zone and will also shock yourself when you find you in fact, have not failed at all. I am a much better person for my failings. Ask my friends.