281 - What Ed Sheeran Learned About Failure?

0:00Davidas is a mentee and recently sent me a video by Ed Sheeran. short video it was on what he learned about failure and boy in three minutes is it so on point to what we see in this business acquisition and many of these things he points out we've talked about but I really want you to listen to this and take your own lessons from it and remember that as I've said many times, you will fail your way to success. Important to remember, important to see, and he gives a great example of that. So let's listen to what Ed Sheeran has to say about failure as he was on the Howard Stern Show. Fucking great is it that you can sing your own songs.

0:52I mean, that's something you're born with, right? You could always sing. uh no no i really like honestly man really yeah i have you got youtube can i can pull up a song that i wrote when i was 14. we can get it so if you type in ed sheeran addicted and this is a song that i made when i was 14 and you can hear i want to hear that i didn't have talent i really didn't and i had to and this is me that this is me at 14 singing this and i got successful at 19. oh here we go

1:25I think I took too much

1:33I'm addicted to your talk No kidding. No kidding. Let me hear a little more. But I'm crying This is great. I love that you so you're telling me you perfected this cuz I hear you sing and I go well he just can sing did you take less I mean because this is not just when did you what had it when did you realize well no I can say I mean definitely send it off now you can you can kill that it's gonna this is what I play to kids and I'm like look this is me at 14 I wrote the a-team at 18 So four years later, I made the A-Team and I recorded it. And in four years, I learned harmony. I learned how to sing in tune.

2:23I learned how to perform. I learned how to do in time. And you can do it. But was it from going out and performing that you learned that? Or did someone... Yeah, failing time and time after again. Yeah. Like, I'm sure you'll agree with me with this. You learn nothing from success. Nothing. You learn everything from the failures. And this is the thing that annoys me about the state that the world is in at the moment is no one talks about failure anymore. It's like shame. Like failure is shame. And it's like, oh, let's just bury that and not talk about it. No one goes, oh, what do we learn from this?

2:53Whereas with success, everyone shouts about it. But there's nothing in success. Success happens from failing hundreds of times. This is such a great message. And people don't believe it. I truly believe, especially with that demonstration you just gave us of you at 14. I truly believe that if you work hard enough at something, I don't care what it is, that you can really become an expert. You can become great. But it doesn't just happen overnight. You have to be rubbish. And you have to have people laugh at you. And you have to have people go, oh, go on, get a real job. No, this isn't really going to work.

3:27You have to. And you just have to have belief that eventually it is going to get better. Where the hell does that belief in yourself come from? The belief comes from, and I'm sure you feel the same way as well, of like, what else are you going to do? I love playing music. I love writing songs. I love performing. And I'm like, I can't do anything else. This is all I love to do. And early on, when I was like 17, 18, I remember I played a wedding and I played covers for two hours. And at the end of the wedding, I got given£200, which was like the month's rent. I was like, oh my God, I can get paid singing songs.

3:59And in that realization, I was like, whatever happens, I know I'm good. somewhere in music i'll be able to make a living this is the thing that i say to kids as well when they want to when they want to get into music i'm like don't have a plan b because if you have a plan b when it gets difficult you'll quit and you'll do the plan b if you only have plan a you will succeed because you'll just be like i have to do it so it's going to happen so i would ask you to remember what you just heard write down those lessons write down something that's going to remind you of that. Maybe write down failure is the process by which you succeed or something like that.

4:37What I learned about failure. I am continuing to learn to get better and better at whatever it is that you want to apply that to. But failure is part of the process as you just heard. So remember that. If you don't know what the process is, go over to brucewhipple.com and grab the Acquisition Advantage Boot Camp Recordings. It's important that you know the steps to follow. And lastly, over there, there's a free course. If you go over to brucewhipple.com, enter your email, you'll also get on my email list where I send three times a week actionable items that you can do. If you want to go there directly, just brucewhipple.com forward slash free course.

5:24But this was one of the best videos in such a short period of time that's so on point to what we're doing in this business acquisition. So I hope that you learned from it and continue to take action and realize that in fact you will indeed fail your way to success. If, and this is a big if, you don't quit.