Failing is freeing

The most underrated thing about failing is how freeing it is.

It didn’t work the ‘right’ way, so now I get to do whatever I want with it. There’s no need to pretend or try to make it look or work like before.

All the time spent on getting it ‘right’ led to this point. A lesson that it wasn’t.
All the prior beliefs, assumptions, expectations, effort, drops away.
All the things people said, no longer counts.

You get a chance to see things anew again.
You get to wipe the slate clean.

I find that comfortingly freeing.

The product launch might have failed today. But I’m now freed to make it whatever it has to be. Even if it flies against conventional wisdom.

Someone on X commented how “successful founders build their own reality”, and this couldn’t be more true.

I get to build my own reality now.