What someone can’t do reveals more about their ability than what they can do

 

Anyone can do a whole lot of things

Anyone can think they know a whole lot of things and think they can do a whole lot of things

Anyone can talk big

Anything looks easy until you’ve tried and failed

 

Failure is the natural litmus test

It dispels the vagueness of your apparent ability and reveals your inability

What you failed immediately reveals some ceiling of your ability

While HOW you failed conveys surprisingly much about your actual ability

 

HOW you fail conveys much about your actual ability

-how resourceful you are

-how calm

-how perseverant

 

Don’t be so keen to focus on achievements, résumés, credentials, brags

Focus on anti-achievements, anti-resumes, anti-credentials

Focus on failures

No one fails on purpose

Therefore failures are REAL. No one fakes a failure so as to make a better impression.

 

Failures is what is left when the luck and ability run out.

Failures are what is real. Failure is the bubble finally popping.

This is when you see reality, unobscured by blind luck.

This is when you see what someone/something is truly made off

This is when you learn

 

Look for failures, look for the inabilities, look for shortcomings

Gauge the ability via negativa — by measuring inability

 

Of course to do it intelligently you must see the whole picture

You look for the inability in order to FILTER OUT THE ABILITY

The thesis is not that “something failed therefore something is a complete failure therefore something will continue failing everything”

Don’t be a negative cunt passing for a sceptic

 

The goal is to filter out true ability.

If you find someone failing GREAT, AMBITIOUS GOALS — this is a good thing. Obviously it means they are aiming high, aiming higher, elevating

Consider it in relation to that which they are SUCCESSFUL AT — and you have a more reliable image of their true ability.

Whereas mere story of their successes alone — without that extra information of their failures — would render a far less accurate image.

 

TEST OTHERS, TEST THINGS

Everyone is successful when times are good

Everyone is a great friend when times are good

Everything looks great when times are good

But when times are bad — that is when true colours show

This is when quality is revealed

Test things, test others immediately — and reveal their true quality