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Increase your motivation by double your rate of failure   by Tim Roth

This can sound strange to many, how can you be motivated by failing at something?
If you shift your approach to life and what happens to you, you understand how failing can make a huge difference in improving yourself and increase your motivation.
Think about the way we learn, even better, how babies learn: babies are always curious and focused in every activity they do.
Curious to poke a toy, to press buttons and they burst in laughter when something goes wrong.
Focused as we adult can’t be, when my son is focused he can’t even ear me asking him something.
Yesterday my son was playing outside in the garden, he found a clay jar full of rain water and started to look for stones to throw in it.
Each throw made the water comes out from the pot higher and higher, the higher the water went up the higher his laughter was.
Obviously he got completely wet, his t-shirt, shorts, shoes and socks.
This could be thoughts of as a failure – he could not throw stones on the jar without wetting himself – but for him was only a side effect,
nothing important considering the main activity he was focused on.
Continuing playing, a stone falled on the jar edge and broke it, I know it’s not good to broke things, but some times you have to broke things
to rebuild them better or rethink them.

So he was sorry to have broken down the jar but some days later he found another jar to play the same way he did previously.
This time obviously he was more conscious about the consequences and nothing happened to that jar.
Simply he experienced a process, he failed, he understood something and learned how to do it better.

I think the following Thomas J. Watson’s words apply to this case “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.”

What I suggest is what I am constantly trying to do myself: every time I’m in front of a challenge, I try to do my best to overcome it.
You can also exercise to be more comfortable at this habit!
How many ways to double your rate of failure and increase your motivation there are?
- ask everything, any time and to every person when you are afraid to … just ask!
- try everything you can (eating grasshopper in cambodia, larvae in cina, snakes in vietnam, practice each sport you desire: golf, triathlon, archery …
- write a tale for babies and publish it on your blog
- write a poetry and publish it on your blog
- write a book and publish it on your blog
- write words for a song and publish it on your blog
…

Of course when you are successful after many failures your motivation increase highly and you gain trust of your means.
Instead if you fail and give up, you stay still where you are and there is no way to move forward or increase your motivation.

Keep failing and learn!

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About the Author

Tim Roth writes for increasemotivation to help people increase their motivation, discover new ways, techniques, method and strategies of motivation.
http://increase-motivation.com/
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