If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
------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, the most successful people throughout histroy 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. There 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 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 honor 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."
Another honorary member, alongside Edison, is Babe Ruth, whom most North Americans know for topping the leagure in home runs. But how many also know that he topped the league five times in strikeouts? To take an example from a different field of activity, Abraham Lincoln
failed in business several times, had a nervious breakdown at age twenty-seven, and lost eight elections for political office, all before
becoming one of the most celebrated presidents in the histroy of the United States.
Are there areas in your life where the fear of failure is holding you back? Where can you exit your comfort zone and take a step toward
realizing your potential?
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