Every week, a father asked his kids a question at the dinner table.

What did you fail at this week?

And he expressed disappointment when they had nothing to tell him. The result of this exercise was that it reshaped the idea of failure in his kids’ minds.

The question is a counter-intuitive motivation mechanism. But it does an incredible thing. It reframes the concept of failure as not trying something that you want to do instead of the inability to achieve the right outcome.

Read that again. If you don’t fail, it means you are not trying.

What would happen if we asked this at the family table? What would our lives look like if we didn’t fear failure?