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By Will Smith:

When people have a negative relationship with failure, they tend to forget that it is a big part of being able to achieve success.

Photographers and people, in general, have to be comfortable with failure.
Failure is where all the lessons are learned. It’s like when you go to the gym and workout; you want to take your muscles to the point where you reach failure because that’s where the adaptation is and that’s what facilitates growth.

Successful people fail a lot; they fail a whole lot more than they succeed. But, they extract the lessons from the failure, and they use that energy and wisdom for the next phase of their success.
You’ve got to take that shot; you have to live at the edge of your capabilities. You’ve got to live where you’re almost guaranteed you’re going to fail. That’s the reason for the practice. Practice is controlled failure.

You are reaching your limit. You can’t lift that; you can’t do that until you get to the point that all of a sudden your body makes the adjustment and then you can do it.

Failure helps you to recognize the areas where you need to evolve. So, fail early, fail often, fail forward.