Dwayne Johnson on failure and fatherhood

    by Tufail: Dwayne Johnson

    Dwayne Johnson opened up about why he no longer labels things as failures. "These days for me, where I'm at in my life, failure is measured by me as a human being, me as a man and me as a father," he said. "I find myself these days being more reflective and contemplative about being a dad and a man."

    Transcript (en)

    These days for me, I love this question, these days for me where I'm at in my life, failure is measured by me as a human being and me as a man, me as a father. I got three daughters, various ages, 20s, 8, 6, all girls. So I find myself these days being more reflective and contemplative about being a dad and a man. and especially because I grew up and I had a complicated relationship with my own man. But I learned so much from him, but also a lot of the stuff that I didn't want to be and I don't, which is kind of crazy as we've all gone through that. So I measure in that way in terms of failure. And what I also did, man, I understood the value of not calling it a failure and just calling it a lesson. And I realized that our brain is always listening to us. So when we say stuff like, oh man, I really fucked up or this thing happened and I'm this or I'm that, it gets in there.