#32 How to Fail Your Way To Success and Get Clear On Your Values - with Jim Harshaw

The Longevity Lifestyle Podcast with David Rachford

Jim Harshaw shares stories and strategies on how failure is essential to eventually becoming successful.

On March 20, 1998, Jim Harshaw ended his sixteenth year of wrestling ended in a locker room with blood on his face and tears in his eyes. He had just lost the match to become an NCAA Division I All American.

He had one more season at the University of Virginia. One more chance. And exactly one year later, in front of over 14,000 fans at the NCAA Championships, He did it. He earned a place on the podium as one of just eight wrestlers in the country with the status of Division I All American.

Jim followed a blueprint for success to get there. The same blueprint got him invited to the Olympic Training Center and took him overseas to compete on a US National Team.

Unfortunately, no one taught him how to apply this blueprint to life outside of athletics.

Fast forward 15 years, and He was working below his potential and feeling stuck. But then he started noticing patterns in my life. Patterns of failure and success. He noticed them in business, in personal relationships, in his health and well-being, and in his level of happiness. These patterns reminded Jim of how I’d failed as a wrestler. And how He'd been successful.

Jim began to see how those lessons could be replicated throughout my life. When he looked at other former athletes who had been able to achieve success, the same patterns were there.

That’s when he knew he'd found a framework for creating a path to elite success in the real world.