"**On the path to successful action, we will fail—possibly many times. And that’s okay**. It can be a good thing, even. **Action and failure are two sides of the same coin**. One doesn’t come without the other. "What breaks this critical connection down is when people stop acting—**because they’ve taken failure the wrong way**. When failure does come, ask: What went wrong here? What can be improved? What am I missing? **This helps birth alternative ways of doing what needs to be done, ways that are often much better than what we started with**. Failure puts you in corners you have to think your way out of. It is a source of breakthroughs." ([Location 1075](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IX49OS4&location=1075)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[training]], [[failure]], [[adversity]], [[problem-solving]], **Source** --