Mark Rober
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It still stings, just like it stings in a video game.
But you're like, you know what?
Let's get back on it.
Let's try again.
I mean, I think it works in real life too.
Like you see this, for example, with kids, like toddlers, right?
When they're learning to walk.
When they don't like successfully walk, they're not like, oh, I suck at this, right?
They're immediately excited to try again.
And as a result, we learn more in the ages of zero to five than we do at any other period.
Because we're just like, failure isn't in our brains.
We're just excited to learn and do cool stuff, right?
And I do genuinely feel like in my life,
I love opportunities for mastery and opportunities to
get better at something and to view it like a video game.
Like I don't like public speaking truly.
I hate it.
It makes me really nervous.
And that's one of my goals right now that I'm working on.
I've got like a speaking coach.