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What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?

  • 05-05-2013 9:24pm
    #1
    Red About Town
    Closed Accounts Posts: 257 ✭✭


    I was reading a 'self help'/ personal development book recently and one of the questions asked in the book is:

    What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?

    If it was me, I would change my career. Something at this stage I don't think I would have to courage or be able to afford to do.

    What would others on here do? Serious and AH type responses welcome.


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  • #2
    Susie120704
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭Susie120704


    I would set up my own business. I was involved in a family business on a part-time basis for 22 years until it failed. I am in a full-time job that I love but I would love a whole new direction where I am the boss


  • #3
    jaffacakesyum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭jaffacakesyum


    Ask Mila Kunis to marry me :pac:


  • #4
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    What if I made an attempt to fail...surely I couldn't fail, right??:confused:


  • #5
    the drifter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    take out boards.ie


  • #6
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Email Jessica Alba for Coitus


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  • #7
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Become the world's first trillionaire.


  • #8
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    Play the lottery


  • #9
    Rayne Wooney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,136 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    Lick my elbow.


  • #10
    Mariasofia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Mariasofia


    Take Michael D's job in a few years.


  • #11
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    So I could drive really fast and not die or hurt anyone? And everytime I did anything at all, it'd go the way I wanted? So I could do every single lotto worldwide every week and win?
    If you could do everything you wanted with the knowledge that it would always go your way, life would get fairly boring after a while and you'd probably kill yourself.


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  • #12
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    the drifter wrote: »
    take out boards.ie

    On a date??

    Thats a whole lotta people :D


  • #13
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Succeed?


  • #14
    DaithiMa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭DaithiMa


    Become a professional gambler.


  • #15
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Prepare


  • #16
    desertcircus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭desertcircus


    I'd fail as hard as I could. I'm a fan of paradoxes and logical impossibilities.


  • #17
    Red About Town
    Closed Accounts Posts: 257 ✭✭Red About Town


    C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »
    Succeed?

    At what?


  • #18
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    desertcircus wrote: »
    I'd fail as hard as I could. I'm a fan of paradoxes and logical impossibilities.

    What about incongruity- are you a fan of that too?:pac:


  • #19
    Satts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Satts


    The Cube.


  • #20
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Red About Town wrote: »
    At what?

    Non-failure?:p


  • #21
    Jogathon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Jogathon


    The same thing I do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world....


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  • #22
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    jaffacakesyum wrote: »
    Ask Mila Kunis to marry me :pac:


    *motions*

    Back of the queue, back of the queue! :pac:


    Without failure OP, you fail to fully appreciate your successes.


  • #23
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,306 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Dictatorship over the USA?


  • #24
    Red About Town
    Closed Accounts Posts: 257 ✭✭Red About Town


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    *motions*

    Back of the queue, back of the queue! :pac:


    Without failure OP, you fail to fully appreciate your successes.

    That's a good point.

    One thing I suffer from though is a fear of failure; there has been many things I haven't done due to being afraid I would mess them up. If l approached these situations with a mindset of thinking I couldn't fail, I would have done a lot more in my life.


  • #25
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,695 ✭✭✭Lisha


    Diet


    Play euro millions


  • #26
    Mariasofia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Mariasofia


    There is nothing to fear but fear itself!


  • #27
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    Cure poverty


  • #28
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    First man on Mars baby.


  • #29
    PingO_O
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭PingO_O


    Jogathon wrote: »
    The same thing I do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world....

    The pinky and the brain, the pinky and the brain, one is a genius, the other's insane!!! :D


  • #30
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Red About Town wrote: »
    That's a good point.

    One thing I suffer from though is a fear of failure; there has been many things I haven't done due to being afraid I would mess them up. If l approached these situations with a mindset of thinking I couldn't fail, I would have done a lot more in my life.


    Posted before on a somewhat similar topic-

    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056899844/17

    Czarcasm wrote: »
    See thing is, it depends on your own perspective of yourself, how you quantify success or indeed failure.

    I could fill an A4 refill pad with lists and lists of failures; I could fill another TEN A4 refill pads with lists and lists of regrets.

    I'd struggle to make a half page paragraph were I to list what I personally would see as my successes, but it's what those successes have meant to me and the impact they've had on my life, that by far outweigh the impact of the many numerous failures, and I tend not to dwell on regrets.


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  • #31
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Kiss the girl I've been in love with since I was 17 -_-


  • #32
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    Kiss the girl I've been in love with since I was 17 -_-

    Ask her out? At least then you'd know how she feels.


  • #33
    Tom_Cruise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Tom_Cruise


    Make a friend and have someone to talk to.


  • #34
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    Make a friend and have someone to talk to.


    If you wanted it badly enough Tom, you'd have made it happen already. There's a difference between seeking friendship and just seeking attention.


  • #35
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    I would just sleep and relax because I wouldnt have to study for my exams


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