Why Failure is Good for You
by Jimmy Roos
Published on this site: August 23rd, 2005 - See
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How do you view failure? Do you see it as something negative
that you don't want to be associated with or do you see it
as something positive? Most people in the world don't like
failure.
Fear of failure is the main reason why more than 80% of people
in the world are not prepared to change their circumstances.
Why do people fear failure so much? The reason for this is
because people don't understand the dynamics involved in success
and failure.
Everything we do in life has either a right way of doing
it and a wrong way of doing it. When we do it the right way
we meet with success. Needless to say that when we do it the
wrong way we are unsuccessful. Understanding this is important
because it puts failure in its proper perspective and removes
the fear around it.
When someone who doesn't understand this dynamic meets with
temporary failure he gives up thinking that he is not good
enough or that he will never make it. But is this really what
it is? Does the fact that you didn't make it the first time
mean that you are not good enough? Does it mean that you'll
never make it? Not at all! All it means is You have not found
the correct method yet!
So what do you do next?You go back and try and find out where
you went wrong.
Then you try again this time employing a different method.
When this doesn't work you go back and look at everything
you have done so far. Talk to successful people who have made
it in this area.
Think of what you might have left out and try again. Whatever
you do, don't give up.
Why do you need to do this? Because, "Every failure,
every adversity and every heartache, carries with it the seed
of an equivalent or a greater benefit", says author and
mentor to many great men, Napoleon Hill. Failure contains
the seed of victory and of success.
Failure teaches you what works and what doesn't. When you
study the reasons for your failure and learn from it, you'll
find the key to your success. The great inventor Thomas Edison
knew this truth better than anyone else. It took Edison 8000
trials to perfect the Edison battery? Afterwards he uttered
this famous quote, "At least we know 8000 things that
don't work".
You should also be like that. Every successful person has
had to overcome temporary defeat at one time or another. Know
this! You haven't really failed until you ACCEPT defeat. Do
you envy those who got success easily? Don't! Success earned
in spite of earlier failure is so much sweeter than if you
would get it otherwise.
Those who earn success in this way know the road to success.
They are not afraid of losing what they have because they
have learned how to become successful. Those that easily got
success don't know the road.
They got there so quickly that they didn't bother to look
around. Let me use the following analogy to illustrate. Take
two guys traveling to the same destination, with this difference.
The one is going by airplane and the other by car, but the
one arriving by car had a few breakdowns along the way.
If you take these two guys back to their original position
and ask them to find their way to their destination, who do
you think is going to remember the road better the next time?
Surely the guy who had a few breakdowns and spend some time
on the road, because he had the opportunity to look around.
Let temporary defeat no longer be an obstacle. You have many
hidden talents, so start working towards realizing your dreams.
Don't be put off by the fear of failure. Failure is an ally
because it contains the seed of success
Jimmy Roos, Tired of listening to people who teach
what they heard from others? Learn from someone who experienced
what you are going through and learn the secrets you won't
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