Comments on: You Are the Only Person Tracking Your Failures

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:37:58 +0000

Hello, I’ve been reading this blog for several years now but i noticed you dont post any more content. Why? I know you have several websites, but im only aware of the one about Cincinnati. Can you display your other sites? Also, in terms of starting a blog what do you recommend? Is WordPress a good thing? What do you think of it? Thank you.

By: Zach @ Four Pillar Freedom

Zach @ Four Pillar Freedom — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:55:46 +0000

In reply to Elizabeth. I love that "I still think I'm a winner". That really is the right mindset to have towards failure. You can only be held back by a failure if you let it. Thanks for stopping by :)

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:48:22 +0000

This article is so helpful! Sometimes I think, oh everyone’s going to see I’m a failure and write me off so I should give up, instead of, no one knows about any of this, I still think I’m a winner – I’m going to keep trying. Thanks for the reminder.

By: Zach @ Four Pillar Freedom

Zach @ Four Pillar Freedom — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:36:16 +0000

In reply to Kraken Fireball. Excellent point - Success truly is obtainable for everyone. It's just important to realize that success is highly unlikely to occur on the first effort.

By: Kraken Fireball

Kraken Fireball — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:40:49 +0000

It’s so freeing to know that no one is truly paying attention to my failures but me. Thanks for saying that, I needed to hear it. I especially like the bit about how people don’t actual care about knowing how many times you failed, they are too busy paying attention to their own failures.
This concept works in reverse too. Typically when we look at wildly successful people rarely does anyone bring up all the times that they failed on the path to success. We just see their success and assume they got it on the first try. This idea of not tracking failures can help bring down this illusion and make it seem like success is obtainable for anyone… because it is.

By: GetRichBrothers

GetRichBrothers — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 20:35:22 +0000

FPF,
Very nice post. I couldn’t agree more. It is so easy to get caught up in a cycle of negative reinforcement. It’s important to realize first of all that failure is necessary to gain experience. Second of all, most people have no clue what is going on in someone else’s life when it’s so difficult to keep track of one’s own life in many cases.
Take care,
– Ryan

By: Sam Foster

Sam Foster — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:12:45 +0000

This is good but be careful to evaluate your failures correctly. Evaluating one’s own failures against one’s success, but, failure for failure’s sake, like the fetishization of failure in Silicon Valley creates a negative loop where one isn’t weighing failures to success but actually using number of failures as the metric.

By: Zach @ Four Pillar Freedom

Zach @ Four Pillar Freedom — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 20:42:35 +0000

In reply to ChooseBetterLife. I couldn't agree more. Failures offer us an opportunity to learn and grow, which is always more advantageous than wallowing in defeat.

By: ChooseBetterLife

ChooseBetterLife — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:02:24 +0000

In addition, those failures (if that’s even what they truly were, though perhaps they weren’t great fits anyway) can teach lessons that will lead to future successes.
There are so many of those I’m glad I learned early when the stakes were relatively small and those lessons still serve me well today.

By: Zach @ Four Pillar Freedom

Zach @ Four Pillar Freedom — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:25:21 +0000

In reply to Mrs. Picky Pincher. I think the ability to look beyond past failures is especially important in the personal finance space. It's easy to get caught up in past financial mistakes but it's vital that we move on from these mistakes if we ever want to reach our financial goals. I also love the term 'mistake factories', I'll have to integrate that into my vocabulary :)