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Throughout my time in the sport of dog agility, I have taken a passionate and competitive approach to training and competing with my dogs. Lessons in mental attitude and mental game have since followed, and continue to greet me at both expected and unexpected moments. Often these are lessons in failure, frustration, success, mental toughness, and mental vulnerability. Sense of Self Mental Game, Part 1 - Failure By Tori Self © PIX 'N PAGES Because mental game doesn't apply merely to sport, but rather all aspects of life, establishing and growing a solid mental game is actually vital to living, much less competing. My aim in this series is to explore several aspects of mental preparation that I myself have struggled with both in and out of the agility ring, drawing focus to failure, joy, and the interplay between mental and physical training. Failing, Feeling, Forgiving You've lost. Maybe you've lost in the agility ring, lost your temper across the table at breakfast, lost in making the choice between a fast food meal or a late night trip to the gym, in the face of a final exam, or lost while trying to play and connect with your new dog. You've lost at something- at several things-over and over again, because as humans, it's part of what we do. We fail. It's a concept for the ages, and we chew on it and muse over it constantly. There is much written about the matter of failure, and concepts of wrongdoing, loss, insufficiency, and fault. Though these words are not always in agreement. Some say embrace failure: "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill "I've failed over and over and that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan 24 Others note that we need not acknowledge failure at all: "I never lose. Either I win or I learn." -Anonymous "I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." -Oprah Winfrey Still others emphasize, try, try again: "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas A. Edison "You always pass failure on your way to success." -Mickey Rooney And others make you question what this concept of failure actually is: "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all-in which case, you fail by default." -J.K. Rowling "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas A. Edison Time has given us the benefit of collective experience surrounding failure. Storytellers from all walks-authors, inventors, musicians, athletes, craftsmen, mystics-have targeted, and persist in targeting, what makes up this elusive and frustrating notion. As demonstrated by the small pool of quotes here, perspectives on failure, and on how to process and handle it, vary drastically. We talk to each other about the importance of failure, but also its unimportance; we talk about meeting failure head on, as well as how to mold it into something else entirely. How we interpret failure varies depending on individual life experience, though we always seem to return to the concept that failure happens. So we have blueprint after blueprint instructing us on handling, interpretations of, and understanding failure, all derived from the human experience across the centuries. But what exactly does that mean? Does it mean that we will fail less today than yesterday, that we might avoid failure? No, these writings emphasize the presence and significance of failure, and how we can and should learn from it. Perhaps then it means that it is easier to understand failure today than it was 100 years ago, because of the quotes and the lessons that have been so earnestly passed onto us. But have you noticed a particular ease in failing, in being wrong, because you exist in 2016, as opposed to 1916? Not likely. Failing is not made easy, nor are we better at failing, simply because our timelines put us in the 21st century. Clean Run | October 16

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