Failure Leads to Success

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Failure Leads to Success

by, Corey Wells

 

Wherever you see success you'll almost always not see the failure that

accompanied that success. One of the most famous examples of this is

Thomas Edison was working on the light bulb, a reporter found out that

Edison had created 10,000 different versions and still could not get

it to work. The reporter asked Edison, " How can you keep going after

failing 10,000 times? Isn't that a little ridiculous? Why don't you

just give up? " Edison answered, " You don't understand, I haven't

failed 10,000 times, I've simply succeeded in finding 10,000 ways that

definitely won't work. "

 

We often fear failure because we view it as an expression of our own

self worth. We sometimes think it shows that we're an inadequate

person or we're bound for a life of mediocrity. However, this is

simply not true. Failure, if anything, means that we now have an

opportunity to learn. We tried and it didn't work. So we need to find

a different way to proceed until we can master the task at hand. Don't

let one failure deter you from trying something else.

 

Those who understand the learning opportunity presented by failure,

like Edison, look forward to failures because of what they can teach

you about yourself and your inner resiliency. When a failure occurs,

look at it objectively and ask yourself why. Did you not do everything

you could have? Can you retry it from a different angle, or with

another mindset? Keep working and you will eventually achieve a

favorable result. If you stop learning from your experiences, then you

truly have failed.