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There is a big difference between an epic fail and a fumble. I myself have failed a lot. I've had so many opportunities that I tried my best at, you know, and I just wasn't the right fit. You know when you apply for something and they're like, We're sorry, but you just weren't a right fit for the application.
But what hurts more than trying your all and falling short is when you know you had the opportunity in your hands, you were running into the end zone, and you dropped the ball. And that is why I want you to know that in this life, you will fumble. oh my God, you will fumble so many times. You will fumble more than you could ever imagine.
You will have opportunities in the palms of your hand, and they will slip by. And maybe that's entirely your fault, and you know it. There are a lot of fumbles I famously have made, one with a girl on a flight to Poland, as you may or may not know, that are generational. But maybe that fumble...
was more important than you could have ever imagined because it taught you the importance of losing that moment. How are you supposed to learn if you don't mess up big time? If you don't have that confidence that, oh, this is in the bag, and then you just drop the ball and it's over. You should run the ball, but instead you throw it and it gets intercepted on some Super Bowl level stuff.
Because that's how you learn. You learn from pain. You will fumble because if you want to learn, you have to fumble. You have to have opportunities that slip you by. You have to. Because you won't know the importance of them. You'll have no idea. It'll just be another opportunity. You need the pain of knowing that that was something so important to you and it didn't work.
In my personal life, I've had so many fumbles. I've had so many opportunities to work with people that I wanted to work with and I dropped the ball because I didn't respond to an email or I didn't go up and introduce myself. Famously, a lot of us fumble with relationships. We know that somebody is good for us. We want to date them, but we just don't do it. And they show the signs.
They're like, I'm into you. After all this time, I'm still into you. And you just hit them with the nah. Not even. You will fumble. You will fumble. And you need to. You need to fumble. You need to understand the importance of these kind of events. And the most important thing about fumbling is you have to know how to recover the ball. You have to know how to recover. That's the importance.
If you fumble and you just replay that play over and over again, oh, why didn't I get her number? Ah! No. You don't have time for that. I mean, you do, but it's not a good use of your time. What's a better use of your time is looking at, okay, where did I go wrong? Why did I fumble? What was the cause of me not seizing this opportunity? Why did it happen? Was it because I wasn't prepared?
Did I go into this meeting with no preparation? Did I go into this exam studying enough? If the answer is no, ding, ding, ding. You know where you went wrong. And it's one thing to acknowledge it, but then how do you change that? Okay, I went into this algebra exam and I did an algebra because I had no idea what anything was. Great. What could you have done better?
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