The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a Fck

Summary part 9
Accept Failure And Pain
You can be your own source of inspiration. You can be your own
source of motivation. Whenever you want, you can act.

And doing something, taking action, is your only metric of success –

it means that even failure makes you move forward.

Manson is considered extremely lucky to have graduated from

university in 2007, early in the financial crisis.

After all, if he had not graduated from an era where the economy
was at the bottom, he would never have had the courage to start his
own business.

Many would consider that the newly graduated Manson was a

failure, but he had his own metrics of success: for him, giving up his
dreams and accepting a “safe” job would mean failure.

Battling for a few years without money was not a failure.

Just as there is no happiness without problems, there are no

improvements without countless small failures.

After all, children fall countless times when they are learning to walk,
but they get up and try again.

Avoiding failure is a learned behavior and one that we must prevent,

grow and improve.

Again, we need to set good values for ourselves-attitudes we must

take every day to improve our lives.

Embracing failure will often mean suffering, discomfort, and fear.

Manson gives the following advice on dealing with the fear of failure:
when you have a problem, do not stand still. Do something.

The answers will appear. Attitudes are not the effect of motivation
but the cause of it.