Florence Given, Can't Skip Failure

 

                                                                    6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper. 


"Your life will change when you realize that embarrassment is just the price you fucking pay excellence. It's the price you pay for greatness and the sooner you accept that is your fate, that if you want to be great at something, music, dancing, acting, writing...I don't know, creating a business, whatever the fuck it is. The sooner you accept and expect embarrassment, and you just accept it as the sacrifice the cost you have to pay to be fucking great at something, the sooner you're gonna become excellent. 

You cannot skip that failure. How will you learn otherwise? You will never embody the wisdom, it will just repeat as these like, affirmations in your head that you've heard from like, business coaches and shit. You have to actually muck in and learn for yourself. That is how wisdom gets generated. Otherwise it's just knowledge in your head. You have to actually apply it. And then you develop an intuition for what to do and what not to do next based off your own fucking experience. 

Until I actually experience something for myself, it doesn't resonate in my body as wisdom. I have to go fuck around, find out and learn for myself. 

Always. 

Embarrassment is just the cost you pay for excellence. Cringe is the cost you pay for excellence. It's a tax you just gotta pay it. -Florence Given

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