Failure is Growth

I’m sure I’ve talked about this before but maybe bumping it or reframing the words will help a little more. In order to be good at something you usually must first be bad at it. There is no learning without an absence of skill and knowledge. I think this is what most adults find really difficult especially the ones currently getting into grappling. they don’t remember what it’s like to fail. Either they were sheltered by the system, by their families or they just stuck to the things that they learned from an early age and don’t remember having to learn the skills. No one learns to walk successfully, you must fall countless times and continue to do so less and less for your entire lifetime. The same is true of any skill, you must practice and fail over and over again until the number of successes far exceeds failures. That is all accomplishment is, fail less than you succeed. If you wish to improve anything, you have to accept failure. It is more frustrating, painful, and obvious in Jiu Jitsu, but also true in all things. If you actually want to do something, the only true failure is quitting.