Mark Rober
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And you just keep trying.
And over time, you get better and better.
And you learn to avoid the obstacles better and better.
You know, Super Mario Brothers, you're just trying to pass the level.
And on that level, there's pits that you could fall into.
There's sliding green turtle shells.
There's lots of ways that you could die.
Okay.
But no one ever picks up that controller for the first time and falls into a pit and is like, I'm such a failure.
Like, I'm an idiot.
How embarrassing.
I'd never want to play this again.
No, instead you're like, oh, crud.
Okay, there's a pit there.
I got to remember that.
Next time I'm going to come a little faster.
I'm going to jump a little earlier, right?
And so by having this attitude toward failure, by focusing on rescuing the princess and
from the castle.
The focus is on the princess and the goal in mind, you focus on the win, right?