# 📉 🧑‍🔬 I fail waaaaaay more than most people. (This is a good thing.)

*#Newsletter #Week13*

By [Sara Endestad](https://paragraph.com/@saraendestad) · 2026-03-27

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OK, I recently heard a scientist say:

**_"They’ve proven that successful people have way more failures than people who didn’t succeed."_**

Then I started thinking about all the successes I’ve seen— do they have more failures than the average person?

*   Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx, got rejection after rejection when wanting to create her product. Today, she’s a billionaire.
    
    (P.S. Her dad used to ask her, "_So what did you fail at this week?_" every week. Failing was considered good in her household. It meant they tried.)
    
*   Tim Ferriss’s MEGAsuccessful book, _The 4-Hour Workweek,_ was rejected by 27 publishers before it finally got printed.
    
*   And Thomas Edison? How many times did he fail before he finally invented the electric light bulb? I don´t know, but his famous quote might give us a clue:
    
    **_“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”_**
    

Looking at their numbers, I almost feel embarrassed that I only had three failed marketing campaigns in 2025.

Now I kind of wish I had at least 15.

In 2026, I’ve already had three more marketing fails.

**2026 is looking good:**

I’m failing more.

I’m failing faster.

Moving closer to the goalpost at an incredible speed.

So I’ll leave this one to you:

**_How much faster would you fail if you only needed to fail 30 more times?_**

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Let’s keep going.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/24f9b97f766e3207d8e5f838e48aa1058bf297b37a937faf8c614f68ea8b064c.png)

[(P.S. Yes, this is a picture from my book.)](https://www.amazon.com/Prestige-Purpose-Escape-Thought-Wanted/dp/B0DTQCFF3W)

/ Sara < 3

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*Originally published on [Sara Endestad](https://paragraph.com/@saraendestad/i-fail-waaaaaay-more-than-most-people-this-is-a-good-thing)*
