Sunday With Sisson | Mark's Daily Apple

On failure  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ [BLOG |]( [PRIMAL KITCHEN |]( [PRIMAL BLUEPRINT]( [Mark Sisson with Coffee Cup]( Happy Sunday, everyone. Someone asked me to write about failure, specifically a time I failed and what I did to overcome it. Well, I'll tell you about several failures. I can't just pick one. They've all been formative. There was the time I opened a frozen yogurt shop in Palo Alto, CA, made it thrive, and decided to expand into Santa Clara. The new shop failed miserably and I lost both stores. Huge failure. There was the time I spent my own money shooting dozens of episodes of a TV health talk show back in the early 2000s. The majority never aired and I pulled the plug on the rest. A million bucks down the drain. And there was the time I finally realized that my endurance athletic career was destroying my body, my family, and my will to live. It was a failure of epic proportions. You know what would have made those failures even worse, though? Not failing. Trying to hold on to those ventures as they slipped through my fingers. --------------------------------------------------------------- If stress is getting you down, try adding [Adaptogenic Calm]( to your daily routine.​ --------------------------------------------------------------- What if instead of throwing in the towel and shutting down the yogurt shop, I took out more loans to keep it afloat? Might not be here writing this today. What if instead of pulling the plug on the TV show I took on corporate sponsors and gave out health information I didn't truly stand by? The show could have survived but I'd have compromised my integrity. And, again, I probably wouldn't be writing this today. What if instead of admitting defeat and switching gears toward a more holistic, Primal way of eating and training, I doubled down on the triathlons and competed and trained 'til the wheels came off? I certainly wouldn't be here writing this today (the Primal Blueprint emerged out of my failure in endurance sports), and I might have two new hips to show for it. Failure is part of the game of life. It is unavoidable. And because life is an open-ended game of games that keeps going unless you make a terrible (fatal) mistake, you can simply start a new game with the information and experience you've gleaned from all the failures. There is no failure, only feedback. Art Devany said that once, and I stand by it. What failures have you experienced in life? What have you learned from them? How have you recovered? Let me know in the comment section of [New and Noteworthy](. [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Custom]( [Custom]( [Pinterest]( #listentothesisson No longer want to receive these emails? [Unsubscribe](. Mark's Daily Apple 1101 Maulhardt Ave. Oxnard, CA 93033 ‌