know how to walk! How did you learn walking? By falling many times
and always getting up again. Unfortunately, somewhere along the
road, you picked up the idea that failure is something terrible. And as
a
result of this, nowadays we fail once and then stop doing things
simply because it didn’t
work out the first time, because we got
rejected, because our business venture didn’t work out right away.
NOW is the time to change your mentality toward failure! Why don’t
you look at it in this way from now on:
Every failure is a great
moment in our life, because it allows us to learn and grow from
it!
Even more and more companies nowadays are shifting to a new
mentality by allowing their
employees to make mistakes, because
they noticed that if people are afraid to make mistakes, creativity and
innovation die, and the company’s progress
slows down. At the end of the day, it comes down to this:
Success is
the result of right decisions. Right decisions are the result of
experience, and experience is the result of wrong decisions.
Here is a story of a famous “failure” that literally failed his way to
success:
• Lost job, 1832
• Defeated for legislature, 1832
• Failed in business, 1833
• Elected to legislature, 1834
• Sweetheart (Ann Rutledge) died, 1835
• Had a nervous breakdown, 1836
• Defeated for Speaker, 1838
• Defeated for nomination for Congress, 1843
• Lost re-nomination, 1848
• Rejected for Land Officer, 1849
• Defeated for Senate, 1854
• Defeated for nomination for Vice-President, 1856
• Again defeated for Senate, 1858
• Elected President, 1860
This is the story of
Abraham Lincoln
, a man we would not exactly
characterize as a failure, would we?
And here are some other famous failures:
