"**The one way to guarantee we don’t benefit from failure—to ensure it is a bad thing—is to not learn from it**. To continue to try the same thing over and over (which is the definition of insanity for a reason). People fail in small ways all the time. But they don’t learn. They don’t listen. They don’t see the problems that failure exposes. It doesn’t make them better. Thickheaded and resistant to change, these are the types who are **too self-absorbed to realize that the world doesn’t have time to plead, argue, and convince them of their errors**. Soft bodied and hardheaded, they have too much armor and ego to fail well. I**t’s time you understand that the world is telling you something with each and every failure and action. It’s feedback**—giving you precise instructions on how to improve, it’s trying to wake you up from your cluelessness. It’s trying to teach you something. Listen." ([Location 1101](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IX49OS4&location=1101)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[training]], [[failure]], [[adversity]], [[ego]], [[commitment-bias]], [[obstacle-is-the-way]] **Source** -- [[202409180132 - B - The Obstacle is the Way]]