FAILURE TOLERANCE CHALLENGE: DAY 5 - Close the loop

a ritual

This is a post in a six-week series on Failure Tolerance as a Magnetic Practice. If you want access to the full curriculum for this series, subscribe to The Twelfth House. Check out Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4 of the Failure Tolerance Challenge.

We have arrived at the final day of our 5-Day Failure Tolerance Challenge.

Today's assignment involves the ancient art of ritual failure acknowledgment. I could wax poetic for five more weeks about the benefits of subjecting yourself to failure. I could assign you months of daily failure tasks to complete. But collecting failures without acknowledging them is like hoarding unopened Labubu dolls in your garage — a little bit insane and definitely a waste of resources.

The point of this gestures around is to heighten our awareness to the changes that occur when we’re faced with the discomfort of failure. The human brain, in its infinite wisdom and occasional stupidity, processes experiences more efficiently when formally recognizing them.

Today, we're extending this concept to include your recent collection of rejections and minor disappointments. I invite you to design your own failure celebration ritual (this is a good starting point).