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To the common man the word failure has a negative connotation. For this reason alone failure has brought unnecessary grief and hardship to millions. But the refining fire of failure can also be the great educator of success. Most of us learn through episodes of trial and error, consequently terraforming failure into a prerequisite for achievement.
The wise and ambitions always seek to learn something of value from each mistake. The loser, trapped within he hypnotic wen of the fear of failure, gains nothing from the attempt and eventually comes up short. Look again at your failures. What you may label a failure may be only a temporary setback. Moreover, examine this minor stumbling block to see if it is really a defeat. It may be a blessing in disguise. Every adversity, every disappointment, never headache, carries with the seed of an equivalent benefit. As a great philosopher has said, God never takes anything away from anyone without replacing it with something better.
Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, was asked to offer his secret to success. In straightforward terms he barked, double your failure rate. In other words, increase the number of risks you are willing to take, this is the most expedient way knowledge is generated. Neither temporary defeat not adversity amount to failure in the mind of the person who looks upon his setback as teacher that will reveal a much needed lesson. As a matter of act, there is usually a good and lasting lesson in every reverse and in every defeat, if we only search for it. And often enough, it is a lesson that could not have been learned in any other way.
The highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to week earnestly after what is true and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
If it is success you desire, failure is unavoidable. There are no substitute for the lessons learned in the school of hard knocks. You should seize every opportunity to learn from your mistakes.
Winners make friends with failure and acknowledge the valuable lesson that it teaches. Failures offer valuable information and are helpful guides, not signals to give up. Failures is a part of the success pattern.
Creating wealth, real estate expert Robert Allen quotes supper salesman Herb True, successful people often experience more failures than failures do. But they manage to press on Allen, who build a multimillion dollar real estate empire himself says, one good failure can teach you more about success than four years at the best university. Failure just might be the best thing ever happens to you.
