What is your view on failure? How do you feel after you fail? Don’t be shy. I know you have failed at something… everyone has, MULTIPLE times. It feels pretty bad huh? Why? Why is it that more than 90% of business owners, entrepreneurs, teachers, students, employees, etc, feel that failure is bad? Why have we been taught to think this way? More importantly why have you not re-taught yourself?
Well I will tell you this, failure is GREAT! I bet you are thinking I am crazy, but listen here. A successful person understands what failure really is. Failure is just feedback, and that feedback calls for adjustments. Your success mechanism cannot work without that feedback. So, with the right mindset on this misunderstood feeling, failure is formulated as: Failure = Feedback + Readjustment = Success
Get out of the mindset of what you have been taught that failure is bad. Change what failure means to you. For instance: Thomas Edison tried 10,000 things before he figured out how the light bulb works. So at what point do you tell yourself to stop before you get the end result you initially desired? How many times would you have stopped before you reached 10,000?
When you treat your failure as a feedback for adjustment, it develops into a really a healthy coping mechanism for failure. Know how to understand these feelings and the emotional response of discouragement. Use it to your advantage rather than turning them off.
credits to January 31, 2011
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