“If you want to increase your success rate,
double your failure
rate”
(Thomas Watson)
(Thomas Watson)
When we hear about
extremely successful people, we mostly hear about their great accomplishments –
not about the many mistakes they made and the failures they experienced along
the way. In fact, most successful people throughout history are also those who
have had the most failures. That is no coincidence. People who achieve great
feats, no matter in what field, understand that failure is not a stumbling
block but a stepping-stone on the road to success. These is no success without risk and failure. We often fail to see
this truth because the outcome is more visible than the process – we see the
final success and not the many failures that led to it.
When I acknowledge that
fulfilling my God-given potential must involve some failure, I no longer run
away from risks and challenges. The choice is a simple one: Learn to fail, or fail to learn.
Thomas Edison had 1,093
patents registered to his name – more than any other person in history! And
while he most certainly deserves a place of honour in the science hall of fame,
he also deserves honorary membership in the “failure hall of fame” for the tens
of thousands of experiments he conducted that failed. Edison himself, however,
did not see these experiments as failures. When he was working on one of his
inventions, a storage battery, someone pointed out to him that he had failed
ten thousand times. “I have not failed,” responded Edison, “I’ve just found ten thousand ways that
won’t work.” Recognizing the real path to his accomplishments,
Edison remarked, “I failed my way to
success.”
Don’t avoid making mistakes by not trying,
Learn from failure.
Lord, Give
Us Today Our Daily Idea(s)
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