If you never want to fail, it is easy. Don’t do anything! If, instead, you want to be successful and live an (extra)ordinary life, you will need to extend yourself beyond your comfort zone and risk failing. In fact, expect failure.
I often think failing from a biomechanical point of view. I am an exercise scientist. This is what I do.
Consider locomotion, e.g., walking. If you want to move forward, you have to risk falling. We are only stable as long as we keep our center-of-mass within our base of support (i.e., the area inside the outline our points of contact with the ground). If we want to move, we must transfer our center-of-mass outside of our base of support and begin to fall. This is what happens when we walk. We lift a foot (decrease of base of support), lean forward (begin to fall), catch ourselves (regain our base of support when the foot strikes the ground), then we repeat. It is worth the risk, I would say.
If one wants to live a fulfilling and (extra)ordinary life, one must take risks. I would emphasize “calculated risks”—consider after all that one does not walk without (hopefully) watching where (s)he is going. Progress comes from moving outside of the “comfort zone”—our base of support.
Challenge yourself to move. They might only be “baby steps”, but they are steps, nonetheless.
Be your best today; be better tomorrow!
Carpe momento!
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