Failures Become Assets When Recorded

In Silicon Valley, they say "fail fast, fail often." But when you actually fail, that motto feels hollow. Today's presentation was a disaster. Mind went blank.

The American way is to get back up and move on. But before moving on, there is value in pausing to record what went wrong. These are exactly the moments that deserve to be logged.

"Failure is the mother of success." — Thomas Edison American inventor. Said to have failed more than 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb.

Unlogged Failures Repeat

If you don't log your failures, you can't analyze why they happened. Then you repeat the same mistakes.

"Messed up the presentation. I prepared but got too nervous and forgot everything. Next time, prepare keyword cards."

Log like this, and next time you can avoid the same mistake.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." — George Santayana Spanish-American philosopher. Famous for his insights on the relationship between history and memory.

Honest Logs of Failure

If you only log successes, you distort reality. Like social media, logs that only show the good things deceive yourself.

Log your failures too. Honestly. That's the real log of you. And that log becomes an asset for future success.

Failure Becomes Language Too

Log today's failure in Mimilog. That honest log becomes a foreign language.

"I messed up the presentation today."
"I was too nervous and forgot what to say."

Being able to express failure is also a language skill.

"Logged failures become lessons. Unlogged failures repeat." — mimilog

When logged, even failures become foreign language expressions.
Any emotion can be learned through language.