Avoiding failure leads to mediocrity. Failure is what pushes us to the lengths we need to go to ensure we get smarter, stronger, and more focused. Failure results in learning. Learning is growth. Growth is awesome. Failure can be so powerful. Success is failure. Failure is success. Successful people are simply the ones who deal with failure best. Your 20s are for taking big, crazy-ass risks. A life lived without failure is not success. It’s mediocrity.

1. Failure is
awesome.
A manifesto for your 20s
so you don’t suck at life.
Emma Reynolds
emma@e3reloaded.com
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2. Failures / Lessons Successes / Growth
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My Life.
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3. But
failure
is
bad
right
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4. Your attitude
towards failure?
W TF!!
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! is
O MG! Fai lure !
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awe som
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5. I recently
failed
at
___________?
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6. That
feeling
is
AWESOME!
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7. 2 failed businesses
wrong hiring = firing
bankrupt screwed up projects/work
2-time university drop-out
made redundancies
debt neglected friendships
failed relationships
failed business partnership
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8. started 3 businesses
generated USD millions revenue
35 women under 35 in UK
25 most inspiring women in HK
keynote speaker in over 20 countries
travelled across 4 continents, 200 cities
13 years work experience
amazing family and friends
incredible mentors
curated TEDxMongkok
Africa and Peru
writing book
run marathons 7

9. From
Hero...
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10. To Zero...
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11. And
back
again!
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12. If you don’t accept
that you may fail,
you won’t push your limits
and you won’t grow.
If you don’t grow,
you will be mediocre.
Do you want to be mediocre?
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13. A manifesto
for your 20s
so you don’t
suck at life.
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14. 1.
Make choices,
not excuses.
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15. 2.
Don’t have a
comfort zone.
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16. 3.
Give a shit.
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17. 4.
Master the art of
giving & receiving
feedback.
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18. 5.
Fail fast.
Fail often.
Always
fail forward.
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19. Make A manifesto Don’t have
choices, for your 20s a comfort
not excuses. so you don’t zone.
suck at life.
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Give Master Fail fast.
a shit. the art of Fail often.
giving and Always fail
receiving forward.
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20. Good things come to
those who wait
Good things come to
those who work
their asses off and
never give up
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21. What will yours
Successes/ Growth
look like?
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Failures/ Lessons

22. Thank you.
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