Failure is awesome; a manifesto for your 20s so you don't suck at life!

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Failure is awesome. A manifesto for your 20s so you don’t suck at life. Emma Reynolds [email protected]

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Avoiding failure leads to mediocrity. Failure is what pushes us to the lengths we need to go to ensure we get smarter, stronger, and more focused. Failure results in learning. Learning is growth. Growth is awesome. Failure can be so powerful. Success is failure. Failure is success. Successful people are simply the ones who deal with failure best. Your 20s are for taking big, crazy-ass risks. A life lived without failure is not success. It’s mediocrity.

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Failure is awesome.

A manifesto for your 20s so you don’t suck at life.

Emma [email protected]

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My Life.

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But failure

is bad

right?

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Your attitude towards failure?

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OMG!!

WTF!!

Failure is

awesome!

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I recently failed

at ___________?

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That feeling

is AWESOME!

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bankrupt

2 failed businesses

failed relationships

debt made redundancies

screwed up projects/work

2-time university drop-out

neglected friendships

failed business partnership

wrong hiring = firing

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curated TEDxMongkok

started 3 businesses

25 most inspiring women in HK35 women under 35 in UK

incredible mentors

13 years work experience

generated USD millions revenue

keynote speaker in over 20 countries

travelled across 4 continents, 200 cities

amazing family and friends

writing bookrun marathonsAfrica and Peru

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From Hero...

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To Zero...

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And back

again!

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If you don’t accept that you may fail,

you won’t push your limits and you won’t grow.

If you don’t grow, you will be mediocre.

Do you want to be mediocre?

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1. Make choices,

not excuses.

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2. Don’t have a

comfort zone.

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3. Give a shit.

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4. Master the art of giving & receiving

feedback.

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5. Fail fast.

Fail often. Always

fail forward.

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Make choices, not excuses.

Don’t have a comfort zone.

Give a shit.

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Fail fast. Fail often.Always fail forward.

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Good things come to those who wait

Good things come to those who work

their asses off and never give up

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What will yours look like?

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Thank you.