 Failing. I hate failing. I hate feeling like a failure. Now if you said that guys you're not alone because I've said it many times before, but in this video I'm actually going to talk about why you should seek out failures and how to make them successful. We're going to get to it after this intro. All right guys what is going on? Luxury of an empty journey helping you succeed on your journey with left stress. Now today is another exciting video in the motivational Monday series where I'm all about helping you enjoy your Mondays as well as your Fridays. So today's topic guys is all about how to enjoy and seek out failures. Now I know that's going to catch a lot of you guys by surprise because you're like no dude I don't like failing you know. As med students we don't like failing because we don't want our grades to suffer. We don't want to look incompetent or silly and sometimes frankly we're just too comfortable with where we are you know progress would be nice but going backwards is more detrimental so we're going to stick where we are. I did this you're probably doing this as well but let's talk about why it's important to fail and let me give you some examples of my own life of how my failures have led to some of my biggest successes. So let me give you some examples. One I decided to start the mdjourney.com which is my blog and now youtube channel and I was writing and I was that horrific writer. I decided to create these videos about a year and a half ago and if you watch the very first video you'll see how terrible they actually were. I'll link it down below for anyone's interested and other things you know for example I was an average studyer I would be spending eight to ten hours a day my first few months in med school and I was miserable and my grades sucked. So failure those are all examples of failing. I failed repeatedly it's not that I noticed them and then I tried to make changes and then suddenly aha moment no. When I was a terrible writer there would be people for months out of time after I'd be writing 10 20 30 articles where no one would read it. There were videos that I would work super hard on and they sucked frankly and no one would watch it. There were studying strategies and styles that I would try and take and I thought this was gonna be the one and I would do it and my grades would actually go down compared to what I had and those were all failures so it wasn't instant success but this is why and this is the main point of this video with why failure is something you should seek out. Through that writing I realized everything that I did that didn't work. Through the videos I realized what I was doing wrong because I realized what was going correctly in the videos I got a lot of views and what wasn't in the videos that never got any traction. In the same way my studying every adjustment I would make would lead me one step closer to the study strategies, study ideas, study principles that I now use and now teach and that's the idea. Failing guides leads you to your success and that success has the lesson and that's the main point of this video guys which is failing leads you to lessons and the lessons leads you to your success. You cannot be the most successful version of yourself if you're not willing to find the lessons and the best way to find the lessons in a time efficient manner is by failing and failing often. Every time I try to study strategy I'd be like oh that's not the one and move on but what if I refused to make adjustments what if I was happy with the bees that I was getting early in that school and never trying for the aids I would never be able to identify you know the final product or maybe it would have taken me even longer to understand that this is a strategy and style that works best for me that goes with everything else that I do in my life so the real question is what can you fail at where are you in life where you feel like you're stuck you're studying your productivity your relationships it could be multiple things and then ask yourself what's something that I could take a leap on or make a small adjustment and be okay with failing for example if you're in a relationship and you want to make the strides to be a better partner you can try to do something different in your relationship for your significant other and see if it works do they respond maybe it didn't work out tinker be okay with failing and move on and try again same goes for your studying same goes for your health everything else guys be okay with failing I know I'm being repetitive but it's so important because I see people in the medical community in the medicine community being okay with just where they're at and we've talked about this in a previous motivational Monday of don't be okay with your average but this video is a little bit different find your average and use failure to keep moving the needle forward so that is going to wrap up this video guys and also comment down below what you think a failure in your own life but guys if you want more videos just like this one first of all let me know the comment section down below like and subscribe and thank you for always being a part of my journey hopefully that was a little help on yours but I will see you guys in the next one take care guys