Normalizing Failure

If you've been to Gain, surely you've noticed our Core Values painted on the chalkboard.

The first item is:

Have a growth mindset. Use failure as an opportunity to learn.

It's simple to understand, but developing this growth mindset is hard. And it will make or break your gym habit.

Having a growth mindset is seeing your ability to improve. Facing challenges head on and using mistakes as fuel and knowledge to improve.

Fixed mindset is being stuck in your ways and unable to see how you could improve with harder effort, better practice or more grit.

It's should be obvious that it pays to have a growth mindset. In doing so, you give yourself permission to slip up. You can normalize failure in our perfectionist society. Skip a couple weeks at the gym, have a bad session, get frustrated with the new snatch variation - whatever it is, the growth mindset encourages you to notice where you could improve, come back and try again.

Don't be scared to fail. Be scared to stop trying.

Justin Miner

@justinminergain