Instead of crumbling to pieces when you fail, learn something from it.
Failure while tough at times, is one of our greatest chances to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams. However there's another vital component to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much.
Mistakes.
Making mistakes is part of life and good lord do we make al to of them. Fact is all of us have made numerous mistakes which become the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go side by side. Most of the time though our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. However, they are just as crucial to our growth and development as all out failure in becoming someone better.
While you can learn a whole lot from seeing things work you usually are going to learn the most from seeing things not work. Take Edison for example. Edison tried to invent the light bulb over 1,000 times and never succeeded. When he was asked what he learned from failing so much, he simply replied that he had found over a thousand ways not to make a light bulb. That's called learning from your mistakes.
What truly made Edison an innovator is that he didn't allow his past mistakes to define what he could do in this moment. He knew that he would learn from all that he had tried and continued down the path of trying to invent the light bulb. Eventually he did and because of his determination and perseverance he illuminated the world.
We are all going to make mistakes. We are going to mess up. We are going to accidentally tear things apart in our lives. But that doesn't have to be the end result. That doesn't have to be the final move. The most dangerous part about making mistakes is when we turn these mistakes into our failures as a human being. Then, things start to get messy.
How do you avoid that from happening?
Own it. Own your mistakes. This is when we truly learn. This is when we grow. It's one of the hardest things in the world to take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I have done something wrong and I'm going to fix it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is our owning up to mistakes is probably one of the most powerful things we possess.
We should expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility. We created the problems now we have got to do what's critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt someone else then it is even more important to own up to what you have done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you are or how scared you are, fix it.
Be the best person you can be. Own your path.
Failure while tough at times, is one of our greatest chances to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams. However there's another vital component to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much.
Mistakes.
Making mistakes is part of life and good lord do we make al to of them. Fact is all of us have made numerous mistakes which become the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go side by side. Most of the time though our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. However, they are just as crucial to our growth and development as all out failure in becoming someone better.
While you can learn a whole lot from seeing things work you usually are going to learn the most from seeing things not work. Take Edison for example. Edison tried to invent the light bulb over 1,000 times and never succeeded. When he was asked what he learned from failing so much, he simply replied that he had found over a thousand ways not to make a light bulb. That's called learning from your mistakes.
What truly made Edison an innovator is that he didn't allow his past mistakes to define what he could do in this moment. He knew that he would learn from all that he had tried and continued down the path of trying to invent the light bulb. Eventually he did and because of his determination and perseverance he illuminated the world.
We are all going to make mistakes. We are going to mess up. We are going to accidentally tear things apart in our lives. But that doesn't have to be the end result. That doesn't have to be the final move. The most dangerous part about making mistakes is when we turn these mistakes into our failures as a human being. Then, things start to get messy.
How do you avoid that from happening?
Own it. Own your mistakes. This is when we truly learn. This is when we grow. It's one of the hardest things in the world to take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I have done something wrong and I'm going to fix it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is our owning up to mistakes is probably one of the most powerful things we possess.
We should expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility. We created the problems now we have got to do what's critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt someone else then it is even more important to own up to what you have done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you are or how scared you are, fix it.
Be the best person you can be. Own your path.
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