What is failure? Most of us have the idea that failure is a something bad. Our schools tend to reinforce the idea. We study the final results of people’s lives and don’t look at their early mistakes. We look at people like Oprah and Tiger Woods and we focus on how great they are now.
We don’t look at the poems that did not work for Mia Angelo, only the masterpieces that survived. Their first efforts ended in the wastebaskets.
We get the impression that these people were somehow born with a mature talent, fully developed skills, never made mistakes, and that everything they did was perfect. I bet their waste baskets were overflowing as yours and mine are.
Every great artist, scientist and businessman made thousands of mistakes before they made the masterpieces that we study and admire today.
Thomas Edison is a great example. He tried thousands of different ways to make the light bulb work. And once when an interviewer asked him how he could continue to go on after thousands of failures, Edison replied, “I haven’t failed thousands of times. I succeeded in finding thousands of ways that the process won’t work.” That’s how we have to learn to regard failure, as attempts, that just didn’t work the first or second time.
Failure is nothing more than a successful way of finding out how a process won’t work. If you try, made a mistake, and then analyze why you made the mistake, you will have learned a great deal.
Remember, there is no shame in failing. Failing is just a necessary part of growth and development. If you have never made a mistake before, it just means you have never tried anything new. That is the biggest failure of all. So if you have a dream or a passion you like to pursue and you’re not afraid of failing go sign up at Dream-Pursuit and start moving forward with your dreams.
Don't forget to tell a friend.
Ps. Your friend Gigi
Wishing you great success.
Posted By: Gigi Lee
Monday, May 11th 2009 at 11:29PM
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