ABOUT THE BOOK

The one common denominator of the world’s most successful people is that they have all failed. They all took risks and flopped. They’ve created businesses nobody cared about, made films nobody wanted to see, wrote words nobody wanted to read, and made music nobody wanted to listen to.

And yet, each and every one of them became the successful people they are, not in spite of, but because of those misfires, flops, and failures. So, what makes the rest of us dare to think that we should run from the very things that made them who they are? And what if chasing failure was actually the quickest way to succeed?

Ryan Leak is widely known as the groom who pulled off the Surprise Wedding where he proposed to his girlfriend and married her on the same day. He spent two years planning every intricate detail of her dream wedding. The number one question he still gets is, “What if she said no?” It was a risk he was willing to take.

The video going viral led him to think about what others would do if they weren’t afraid of hearing “no” or of being met with failure. Ryan realized that many people never pursue their hopes and dreams because they pre-calculate their own failure. They quit before they ever even try.

So, he asked himself: What would he want to do if he knew he could not fail?
 The answer was easy—he’d be in the NBA—and since the only way to know if that dream could be a reality was to try, that is exactly what he did.
In a world obsessed with chasing success, Chasing Failure inspires and equips its readers to embrace the thing they’ve been taught to fear. And while there are many books that contain great stories of people who have failed only to later succeed and books that inspire, affirm, and encourage, Chasing Failure differs in that it inspires and equips. It not only helps readers deal with the fear of failure, but provides practical action items. Because a dream without a plan is just a hope.

IN CHASING FAILURE YOU’LL LEARN…