Falling well is the ability to absorb a setback without shattering, to fail gracefully, to catch oneself mid-fall (emotionally, mentally, practically) and salvage what one can in order to quickly begin building anew. It’s the opposite of ‘crashing and burning’; it’s losing ground while still staying grounded, meeting defeat without being defeated or defined by it.
It’s the resilient restart with renewed energy, rolling with the punches, picking up the pieces, starting over with momentum, applying the lessons learned. If you are brave often enough and you keep trying out new ideas (no matter how intelligently), failure is inevitable. The only way to never fail is to do nothing, be nothing. Accept stumbling and falling down as just a normal part of life, don’t stress over it; just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and continue onward.
Closing Quotes:
“It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett, ‘Worstward Ho’
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher, ‘Lean Forward Into Your Life’
As always, I share what I most want and need to learn. – Nathan S. Collier
Note: Every effort has been made to properly source any 3rd person material. I am, however, a voracious reader. If anyone finds any unattributed material, pls let me know asap and I will be delighted to give credit where credit is due.
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
