Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Yes, you heard that right. Morgan DeBaun encourages folks to practice failure through hobbies. So kill your plants, knit a scarf with dozens of dropped stitches, or bake that sourdough bread that never quite rises! Low-stakes activities like these help us to get comfortable with the feeling of failure, allowing us to take bigger and better risks when it really counts.
“Every year I have this really ambitious plan where I'm going to grow tomatoes and basil and we're going to make fresh pasta…And every year my plants die because I travel so much, and I'm okay with that. I've learned to embrace this act of failure as a part of just living and enjoying the moment of the activity,” Morgan explains.
Yes, you heard that right. Morgan DeBaun encourages folks to practice failure through hobbies. So kill your plants, knit a scarf with dozens of dropped stitches, or bake that sourdough bread that never quite rises! Low-stakes activities like these help us to get comfortable with the feeling of failure, allowing us to take bigger and better risks when it really counts.
“Every year I have this really ambitious plan where I'm going to grow tomatoes and basil and we're going to make fresh pasta…And every year my plants die because I travel so much, and I'm okay with that. I've learned to embrace this act of failure as a part of just living and enjoying the moment of the activity,” Morgan explains.
