2009
06.19

Who Is a Better Teacher: Failure or Success?

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“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Picasso.
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” -Buddha

I’ve been reading about success and failure for the last couple of years. It still amazes me how many SUCCESSFUL persons will say that FAILURE is the best teacher when comes to life lessons. A couple of years ago, while I was in college, I used to say to myself many times trough the day: “Failure is not an option”.   Was I motivating myself the wrong way?

As I said before, many athletes, entrepeneurs, politicians or musicians claim to have learned more from their errors, their failures than from their success…Donald Trump, successful businessman and real estate developer once said: “Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.” The meaning behind that statement is just .. INCREDIBLE.

Other great example of someone very successful with many failures in his life is .. Michael Jordan:

Maybe, I wasn’t wrong about “Failure is not an option”… IF you’ve learn your lessons trough life. I believe that the element that makes failure such a good teacher is the amount of effort you need to put on your problem to have a 180 degrees turn around…If you are not creating the kind of SUCCESS you want right now, there is a reason for that…At this moment of my life of course I want BIG Success….But I embrace FAILURE as a very valuable teacher….like a voice in my head that says: “you can’t do that…UNLESS…”

I believe that in order to be successful you have to take managed risks. If you know what you are made off you gotta be willing to take full responsibility of your errors and more importantly to LEARN from them. Every single mistake I’ve made lately, has become later on a very VALUABLE lesson for the REST OF MY LIFE.

So the next time that you feel you go down and don’t know what to do remember:

“Success came when emotion left” – Mike Dillard.

Fulfill Your Dreams,

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  1. Maria said: 2009.06.24 00:01

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