Fail to Succeed
How many of us want to fail?
I am afraid not one does want to.......
Coming to the next interesting question
How many of us have failed before?
Not one who has not! Is it not?
That is the irony of life. The
predictable unpredictability.
Another interesting factor is that
those who have seen big successes have also seen big failures and
more failures than most others.
Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Alwa Edison,
Henry Ford, Chris Gardener, J K Rowling, Michael Jordan, Sylvester
Stallone Winston Churchill and Colonel Harland Sanders, Abdul Kalam
and Amithab Bachchan are great examples of those who have sprung up
from failures.
Infact, those who have big successes
have seen big and more failures, but only those who had the grit to
continue inspite of so many failures could succeed.
It is said that Thomas Alwa Edison and
his team tried and tested with around 17,000 plants in search of a
particulat latex extract. Head spins when you hear the number of
attempts his team indulged in.
Can we take credit of bouncing back
from failures. Ow many attempts have we made?
We learn following from life examples.
- Failures are means of learning
- More the failures, closer we are to success.....
- Persistence “inspite of failure” is more important than learning from failures.
- Success can only be delayed, but not denied, for the deserving.
Analysing the reasons of failures with
the following questions is very critical:
- Why?
- What?
- How?
- Where? and
- When?
The success formula lies in the answers
to these questions.
There are three types of reactions when
people handle failures:
- Those who give up at first few failures and never return again
- Those who are determined in spite of failures, number of failures not witstanding.
- Those who beyond a particular point increase their threshold level for the same and take more failures
How do we react to failures?
How the failures are used as lessons to
build steps to success make all the difference.
Remember the story that we have read in
school about King Rober Bruce of Scotland who got inspiration from
the spider.......and eventually won the battle.
Failing is but natural in the journey
of an entrepreneur. It is those who bounce back like a spring when it
is pressed down, take the path to success, not those who giveup.
It may be an old and popular quote,
repeated numerous times, but still worth mentioning again:
“Success is stumbling from failure
to failure with no loss of enthusiasm”
– Winston Churchill
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