Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club.

We've been talking about how to lose your fear of failure for four weeks.

If you miss the prior conversations,

I highly recommend going back and listening to the other podcast or checking out

Arnold'sPump Club.com for the written versions.

My commitment to this series is because I don't want any of you held back

by your fear of failure any longer. For our final step in fighting your fear of failure, we are going to think about your

heroes and idols. But instead of focusing on their successes, which everyone

knows, we are going to focus on their failures. It is powerful to learn that even

the greatest have failed many, many times because we have a way of forgetting the

struggle and imagining they just naturally succeeded.

That they had something no one else had when what they really had was the wisdom to keep going,

even when they failed.

Michael Jordan has, quote,

I always share about this.

He said, I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.

I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot

and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed and that's the greatest basketball player of all time but it's not just

Michael Jordan you could argue the greatest baseball player of all time is Babe Ruth.

His batting average was 342.

That means about 65% of the time. He didn't get a hit. He struck out over 1,300 times.

Imagine if that made him give up, but maybe sports aren't your thing. Maybe you love leaders like Abraham Lincoln or John

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