# @lala_the_diver on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVRn97gGzB
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/72580988-lala-the-diver-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/0c3c8480a5.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-04-06T17:20:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Laura Wilkinson🥇Athlete Mindset & Performance Coach (@lala_the_diver) — https://gondola.cc/lala_the_diver

## Caption

I had a great talk with @lauren.okamoto the other day about the importance of failure.

Walking through failure doesn’t feel good, so we don’t like to talk about it, and we certainly don’t enjoy posting our failures for the world to see.

But when we try to ignore failure or move past failure without learning from it or when we see other’s social media perfection without a single blemish... we forget how absolutely CRUCIAL failure is for success.

Without failure, you can’t grow.

Without failure, you can’t learn humility.

Without failure, you’ll never learn perseverance.

Without failure, you won’t be equipped to fight under pressure.

Without failure, you’ll never appreciate victory.

Failure feels fatal to us most of the time.

But the truth is that failure is necessary to learn how to become greater than you currently are.

I want you to walk through this journey with me- through the highs and the lows. So even though it’s uncomfortable to show you the worst instead of the best, I’m doing exactly that.

I did my dives for just the third time the other day, and yes I still get nervous. And yes, I still make all kinds of mistakes. And yes, it’s embarrassing. And yes, I get back up and keep going.

After this lovely wipe out (video above), one of the young divers asked me if I was okay.

I laughed and said, “Yes, I’m just eating a little piece of humble pie. Let’s call it character building.”

Yes, I did do another one that was much better, but I’m not going to show you that one. I’m only showing you the “failure” here so that you can be reminded that we ALL fail.

But remember this: the failure itself does not define you. It’s how you RESPOND to that failure that begins to shape your journey from that moment forward.

Get back up, learn and be the one to rise.

#olympian #failure #failureleadstosuccess #partoftheprocess #betheexample #failureisnotfatal #failureisnotfinal #thebeginning #failtosucceed #athletelife #womeninsport #femaleathlete

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## Tags

athletelife, olympian, betheexample, partoftheprocess, failure, womeninsport, femaleathlete, failureisnotfatal, thebeginning, failureisnotfinal, failtosucceed, failureleadstosuccess

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