Paul Assaiante is the head men’s squash coach at Trinity College. Paul has won 17 National Championships, there was a stretch when they won 13 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS in a row without losing a single match during those years.

 Paul is regarded as the winningest coach in sports and I was recently talking with him and he had this to say, “The single most important quality a person can have to be successful as an adult is to be resilient and to be resilient you must first fail. And we’re not letting that happen.” 

Paul was talking about the young student athletes coming into his program today. He said he’s never seen them so buttoned up and polished. They could give you all the right answers, be great in interviews, essentially talk the talk and look the part.. But the second they meet adversity they crumble. They haven’t learned to fail. They’ve been striving for perfection and not realizing that the only way you build resilience is by failing and learning to adapt, to grow and to realize you can get through it. 

Here is the winningest coach in sports and he’s saying you have to fail. You need to know failure is going to happen but it’s how you respond to failure that is critical. Are you going to expect perfection so the second you meet failure you stop or are you going to be resilient. To run towards your stretch points, come face to face with failure and realize that you can grow and learn from this moment. That just because you failed in one situation doesn’t mean you can’t get back up and go at it again. 

So today, give yourself the space to fail, run to your stretch points. Allow your kids and coworkers the room to fail as well and then when they do fail be there for them. To help them grow from this experience and to get back at it again. Because the most important quality an adult can have to be successful is resilience.. 

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