I totally agree with you that it is all about mindset, the exact point I was trying to make with this post

I look forward to reading through your blog over the next couple of days

First, let’s be clear. I completely agree with you that there is indeed no such thing as failure. It’s only a seductive “perception”.

But here’s the problem.

I like to talk about this in the context of the learning curve because that describes all the twists and turns troughs and crests that can be encountered during any attempt to get something all the way to completion.

But here’s the problem.

This learning curve thing throws off some tremendous energy-sucking challenges. These are so significant for some that they simply can’t take any more of it and so give up and quit.

It’s really a matter of endurance over time.

You have to be able to hang in there because the best learning happens when one is active and engaged. (This idea refers to the famous “learn by doing” emphasis in education introduced in the 1920′s by American educator/philosopher John Dewey.)

Failure, it seems, can only exist in the empty space between starting something and quitting it before completion. It’s really only a word we use to describe something that was never done. Like the Babylonian invention of zero to describe an empty space that allowed negative numbers to come into existence.

It is indeed a vicious habit of human thinking that such a thing as an action that was never taken can elicit such destructive emotions. In truth you did start and you did get to a particular point in the process. That counts for something.

If you didn’t make it – big deal – that should be the end of it.

Move on to the next thing.

Of course only a few, about two to five percent of us, can consistently act this rationally. That’s why I invented a progressive theory I call “Mindset Immunity”.

You can read about it on my blog.