Failure is inevitable. But that’s not the problem. The problem is how we define it. Every plateau you hit, every lift you miss, every time you screw up your meal plan and inhale a pizza like it owed you money – that’s part of the process. You’re supposed to fail. You’re not supposed to quit. But somewhere along the line, we got soft. Failure became something to fear, not something to use. We worship the highlight reel, forget the grind that built it, and get surprised when real progress requires some bruises. Look, the only difference between the people who succeed and the people who don’t is that the successful ones didn’t stop when it got hard. Everyone wants success to feel like a straight climb. But real growth doesn’t look like that. It looks like two steps forward, one step sideways, a faceplant, then a breakthrough. Over and over