Failure is a predictor of success. This is, without question, one of life's great ironies.
“I have not failed, rather found 10,000 ways the light bulb didn’t work” – Thomas Edison
The more failure one encounters corresponds strongly to the more successes that person encounters. The most successful among us are, without exception, those who have failed the most - as a result of being those who have tried the most.
Recognize that you will spend much of your life making mistakes. If you can take action and keep making mistakes, you gain experience. The average entrepreneur fails 3.8 before they finally make it in business. When achievers fail, they see it as a momentary event, not a lifelong epidemic. The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
If you are succeeding in everything you do, then you're probably not pushing yourself hard enough, and that means you're not taking enough risks. You risk because you have something of value you want to achieve.
Athletes who beat themselves up (“I’m terrible, I suck”) get themselves behind in the count, behind in their sport, behind in everything. So stop beating yourself up over a setback, over losing, over not performing as well as you’d like. Instead see it as an opportunity to learn and grow. Don’t lose faith or get caught up in other’s success – keep approaching the setback head on and use a spring board forward - To know how to win/succeed – you first have to fail/lose.
Finally, always remember the next time you find yourself envying what successful people have achieved; recognize that they have probably gone through many negative experiences that you cannot see on the surface.
“It’s not that I’m smart or special, it’s just that I stay with problems longer “– Albert Einstein
“I have not failed, rather found 10,000 ways the light bulb didn’t work” – Thomas Edison
The more failure one encounters corresponds strongly to the more successes that person encounters. The most successful among us are, without exception, those who have failed the most - as a result of being those who have tried the most.
Recognize that you will spend much of your life making mistakes. If you can take action and keep making mistakes, you gain experience. The average entrepreneur fails 3.8 before they finally make it in business. When achievers fail, they see it as a momentary event, not a lifelong epidemic. The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
If you are succeeding in everything you do, then you're probably not pushing yourself hard enough, and that means you're not taking enough risks. You risk because you have something of value you want to achieve.
Athletes who beat themselves up (“I’m terrible, I suck”) get themselves behind in the count, behind in their sport, behind in everything. So stop beating yourself up over a setback, over losing, over not performing as well as you’d like. Instead see it as an opportunity to learn and grow. Don’t lose faith or get caught up in other’s success – keep approaching the setback head on and use a spring board forward - To know how to win/succeed – you first have to fail/lose.
Finally, always remember the next time you find yourself envying what successful people have achieved; recognize that they have probably gone through many negative experiences that you cannot see on the surface.
“It’s not that I’m smart or special, it’s just that I stay with problems longer “– Albert Einstein
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