Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön, best-selling author of When Things Fall Apart, believes that failure is a natural part of the human experience — so we should learn how to do it well. Chödrön began exploring Buddhist teachings after a traumatic divorce to her second husband led her on a search to ease her pain. She learned what to do when your life falls apart: “Fail, fail again, fail better,” she says.
On her upcoming “Super Soul Sunday” appearance, Chödrön joins Oprah for an uplifting conversation about her spiritual journey. In the above clip, she discusses a recent graduation speech she gave at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo.
“I said, ‘I think the most important thing for you kids going out into the world right now is to know how to fail really well,'” Chödrön says. “[Learn] the skill of knowing how to…
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Oct 24, 2014 @ 00:36:52
Wonderful share! Failure really does bring openness… Once you learn how to look in the failures to see it, that is!
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Oct 24, 2014 @ 08:14:13
Yes so True, you can’t just fall apart after failure.
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Nov 10, 2014 @ 20:56:11