{"id":29645,"date":"2020-09-19T15:01:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29645"},"modified":"2020-09-19T15:01:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T05:01:35","slug":"failed-more-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29645","title":{"rendered":"Failed More Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Failed_More_Times.jpg\" alt=\"Failed More Times\" class=\"wp-image-29646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Failed_More_Times.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Failed_More_Times-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Failed_More_Times-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Failed_More_Times-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is SO much truth in this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was encouraging someone over the phone yesterday and I related the story of how many years ago a speaker making the point that you cannot let lack of confidence stop you from trying something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He asked us to recall when we were first learning to ride a bike and we told the person teaching us not to let go of the seat until we were ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said you cannot have confidence until you aquire some competence and that only comes from doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the sequence is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First you have to do. No competence. No confidence. Just the courage to do.<br>\nWith repeated doing, failing, learning, changing your doing to improve it, you gain competence.<br>\nAnd as a result of gaining comptence to are now confident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look over any skill you have and I think you will see the truth in this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is SO much truth in this! I was encouraging someone over the phone yesterday and I related the story of how many years ago a speaker making the point that you cannot let lack of confidence stop you from trying something new. He asked us to recall when we were first learning to ride &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Failed More Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29647,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions\/29647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}