“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Success is built upon failure. Failure is how we gain experience. Failure is how we learn and grow. And it is by learning and growing that we eventually succeeded. Allowing you and your horse to make mistakes makes your corrections meaningful. If there was no chance of failure, our craft would be boring. It is through our failures that our bonds grow.
If you’ve been living your life in fear of failure, then you should stop doing that. That’s because staying away from failure won’t help you succeed — it’ll only keep you from winning. By being afraid to fail, you fail by default. The sooner you embrace failure, the sooner you can learn, the sooner you can embrace victory. So go try, go win, and get Ranchy!
