Failure is Not a Problem

I just got done doing all my forecasting. And I have these really fancy spreadsheets with all these numbers on them. And I've got targets and I've got expectations. I look at the numbers, and they're pretty scary.

It brings up a lot of questions, like, what if I fail? And will I be disappointed? And it really just kind of shoots me back into grade school where this idea of failure is just equated with BAD. You take a test, and you either pass it or you fail. And if you fail it, you bring that paper home to Mom, and Mom's gonna look at you disappointed. And if you fail enough tests, well, you might fail the class. And if you fail enough classes, well, you might fail the grade, and then you have to start all over again.

So failure was absolutely out of the question as a kid. And this created this low-grade pressure and discomfort. I didn't want to disappoint my parents, and it drove me.

Is this an advantage? Or disadvantage?