Bendy Ben wrote:I just get nervous about failure believe it or not.
Nobody likes to fail, but you don't know where the edge is until you fall off it, I would rather see someone try and then fail, than someone who is a success all of the time. Failure is a great leveller, if we take it to the extreme, we would do one event once, and never do it again, so as to maintain a PB, that will never change. But doing the same event, or run, or bike ride on different days produces too many variables,wind, rain,heat,traffic, company, so each one is different and therefore each one creates a PB. Therefore failure does not occur.
Each time is independant, and as you did at school, you introduce, experimental error.So you can look at each event as both an individual, stand alone, or grouped as a comparative.
If no one failed, then the top of the podium would be very crowded, if you quantify failure as producing a performance that was not as good as the preceeding one, then you will burn out, fade away, and just sit mumbling in the corner.
By comparing with others,or yourself, then progress can be made.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.