If you want to be successful, I would encourage you to grow a tolerance for failure. — Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to be successful, I would encourage you to grow a tolerance for failure.

Author: Robert Kiyosaki

Insight: Most of us are taught the opposite from childhood: avoid failure at all costs, don't mess up, play it safe. But that advice quietly sabotages ambition. The people who end up building something real—a business, a skill, a meaningful career—aren't the ones who never failed. They're the ones who failed enough times that it stopped feeling like catastrophe and started feeling like information. Growing tolerance for failure doesn't mean being reckless or indifferent. It means understanding that the attempts that don't work are actually part of the process, not interruptions to it. When you genuinely accept that some tries won't pay off, you can take bigger swings. You can launch that project, have that difficult conversation, or learn that skill without being paralyzed by the fear of doing it imperfectly the first time. The twist is that this tolerance itself becomes the invisible advantage. While others are stuck deliberating endlessly or abandoning ideas at the first setback, you're already three failures ahead, collecting the lessons that actually lead somewhere. Success looks like confidence partly because it's built on a foundation of accumulated failures that nobody else remembers.