1 Habit All Successful Makers Have In Common

Most successful people share the same handful of things in common:

• They are disciplined with their time

• They know how to stay focused on one goal at a time

• They have mentors and other influential people they can turn to for advice

• They have mastered one (or multiple) valuable skills

• Etc.

But most successful Makers have this 1 habit in common:

Refusal To Fail

And here’s why:

Failure is essential for leaning new skills.

Failure is frustrating, especially when it comes in the middle of a project you’ve already sunk days into and you have no idea why something didn’t work. We’ve all been there and the feeling is crushing. It’s easy to throw your hands up, say you shouldn’t have tried, and think you’re an imposter.

Makers, however, view failure differently.

Makers View Failure As Data

All data, when used to inform future decisions, can be good data if you change how you view it.

• Failure tells you something won’t work that way.

• Failure tells you you’re not thinking about the project correctly.

• Failure tells you to try another way.

On failure, James Clear said, “Failure is most useful when you give your best effort. If you fail with lackluster effort, you haven’t learned much. Perhaps you could have succeeded with a proper focus. But if your best effort fails, you have leaned something valuable: this way doesn’t work.”

Makers who give a project their best get data, not failure.

If you just slap some material together and it doesn’t work, you need to try harder. If, on the other hand, you use all your knowledge on a project and something fails, you have more knowledge of how it doesn’t work. Use that and make the next attempt better with that knowledge in hand.

The key is to not let failure stop your attempts. There is always another way. Now you just know 1 more way it won’t work.