Fail Forward, Fail Fast

Past Potential with Khoi

Quick piece of advice today — Fail forward. Fail fast. Apply the things you learn right away. Brain research shows that we retain more information when we either attempt to teach what we’ve learned or apply it immediately. If you read an article or watch a video without doing anything with the newly acquired knowledge, you’ll retain much less. This is because we learn via our mistakes. The more mistakes we make, the more ingrained the process becomes. Who cares if you don't really know what you're doing or think you don't know enough about a subject to talk about it. The key to learning more is to take action, make mistakes, and fail. Don’t simply consume to consume. Anyone can do that. Consume to apply, to make mistakes, to fail — so that you can grow. Our failures will never define us, but they teach us the most. Learn from them. The most successful people discover that they failed their way to success. We all do.