27 October 2009
A fact of life: Everybody Fails!
Posted by Moss under: Personal/Self .
Failure has gotten a bad reputation over the years.
A fact of life: Everybody Fails!
Failure is part of the success formula. People explore, initiate, and act of their hunches, intuitions, and information at hand. Most of the time they make mistakes, screw up, or fail. Gradually they cut out the stuff that didn’t work: (what they learned from failing), and keep what did work.
People should be encouraged to fail—its part of risk-taking, learning, and success. Adversity, setbacks, and failure are necessary for partners to succeed. There is a practical side of failure: partners learn from experience, become more resilient, and develop tougher hides. Many have taken the path of discovery and failed along the way only to try again, each time learning what not to do the next time.
Some famous examples are Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford, Oprah Winfrey, and Walt Disney.
What’s the difference between ventures or projects that succeed and those that don’t? Successful people, those who have learned to navigate through tough times and failure, think creatively about their mistakes. They learn, adapt, and act. They keep their focus on where they’re going. Failure spurs them on. They know that success is the best revenge.
People who become victims to failure take it personally, rather than as a learning opportunity. They tend to repeat patterns that pull them further off course into a downward spiral.
Bottom Line
- Everyone fails.
- It is not personal.
- The bigger the dream, the more partners fail.
- Learn to bounce back like a super ball.
- Control your emotions, especially anger and fear.
- Manage your thinking to stay focused and productive.
- Give yourself an “A” every time you fail; you’ve given yourself an opportunity to learn.
