Training to Failure. Entrepreneurial lessons from Bodybuilding.
Training to failure is a style of bodybuilding where rather than doing a specified number of repetitions in an exercise, you start with the intent of keeping going until you're beat. You continue until you fail.
Training to failure is a style of bodybuilding where rather than doing a specified number of repetitions in an exercise, you start with the intent of keeping going until you're beat. You continue until you fail.
With training to failure, there are no absolute numbers. There is no specific goal other than continuing until you fail. Not about to fail, not on the verge of failing but absolutely fail. You keep going until your muscles fail and the weights tumbles towards you.
Evidently its frightening physically but much more so psychologically. It’s absolutely exhausting to start something without having a defined end, without something to count down to, without knowing when you will be finished. It’s a killer knowing you won’t be done until you fail
There is no chance of ending on a high, of victory, only a certainty of ending when you fail. You start out knowing you won’t be getting off easy. You begin with complete clarity of ending in failure. It’s a mental nightmare. Think about it.
Entrepreneurship is training to failure. You’re never done. You keep pushing until your body and mind stop working. No fixed hours. No success ceiling. No easy rides. No clocking-off. No treading water. You are all-in always.
It takes a certain kind of person to embark on something knowing that failure most likely. It takes a level of bravery, confidence, resilience and tenacity that only a small minority posses.
No matter the result, commend yourself for having the strength to embark on it.
No matter the result, commend yourself for having the strength to embark on it.
