The Simple Way to Know You’re Pushing Yourself to Your Limits
The only way to constantly improve is to constantly try to do more than you did yesterday. If you take the safe route and do what’s comfortable then you will remain stagnant. This is just a fact of life.
Not everyone values growth. Many people are fine with the status quo and that’s okay. However, if you’re a person who wants to test the limits on how far they can go at something, there is only one way to know for sure you are doing this. FAILURE!
You Aren’t Pushing Yourself to Your Limits if You Aren’t Failing
Those same people who don’t value growth and who are okay with the status quo treat failure as a bad word. These people avoid failure at all cost.
On the other hand, those who value growth treat failure as part of the process. Embracing failure is hard. Even people who value growth and who what to push themselves past their perceived limits hate to lose. However, hating to lose and accepting failure as a necessary part of the growth process are two different things.
Just because you accept failure as part of the process does not mean you accept failure. It just means you accept that winning all the time is not good for you. If you always win, then you’re not pushing yourself to your limits and you’re not growing. Therefore, if you fail at failing, you will fail at growing.