We start this post with an video which shows an important aspect of life failure, Please go through the video...
Success and failure are two sides of the coin known as life If you have never failed you have never lived. Life is a learning process, we succeed and we fail, and we learn from our failures.
Napoleon Hill, one of America’s first and greatest writers on the topic of success, said: “One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”
The antidote? Patience and perseverance … regardless of the obstacles in your path.
Lets analyse some other aspects of Failure
Failing at something does not mean you are a failure
Steve Jobs reflected on this when he said in 2005: “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.”
On inventing the incandescent light bulb Thomas Edison said: “I didn’t fail 10,000 times, I just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Oprah was fired as anchor in Baltimore’s WJZ-TV because she was supposedly too emotionally invested in news stories, and therefore labeled “unfit for television news.” This led her to a role on a daytime TV show, People Are Talking.
Someone’s inability to see your brilliance is not failure
Did you know that at the age of 22, Walt Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star (a Missouri newspaper) because “he lacked creativity and imagination and had no good ideas.” It certainly took courage for Walt Disney to continue to pursue their dream after that prescription.
Thomas Edison was home schooled because his elementary school teacher told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.”
Rejection is not failure
Walt Disney was rejected over 300 times by bankers who thought his idea of Mickey Mouse was ridiculous.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was rejected by publishers about 27 times before Dr. Seuss was on the shelves.
It have been seen that the greatest achievements in history were all made possible by a pioneers, trailblazers, inventors, explorers, creatives that did not stop believing and had the courage to pursue their dreams against all odds.
They ultimately achieved great success by viewing defeat as a temporary state and responding with tenacity, hard work and an abiding faith in themselves.
