I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ~Michael Jordan
Failure is something in life that cannot be avoided, it’s everywhere, and that’s what makes it beautiful. It makes people humble, shows responsibility, and makes you stronger. But most importantly, it is a tool for learning.
Failure teaches us many things, it teaches us to accept responsibility, and it teaches us to search for a different path. But most of all, it teaches us that it’s ok to fail, and all you can do is pick your self-back up and continue. The most successful people are the ones who fail the most, they have accepted the fact that success, can’t come without failure, and that they need to change what they are doing to finally succeed. They have a different outlook on life, allowing them to turn the “fear of falling” into the adventure of falling. Thomas Edison, the godfather of the lightbulb, didn’t create the life changing invention in 1 try, he had 10,000 prototypes, that’s 10,000 failures before he created his masterpiece. He changed the way the world worked, but only through his failures he was able to do so.
When it comes to learning from our failures, our own egos become the very thing that deny us. When something bad happens, it’s our natural reaction to do anything we can to protect our ego’s and reputation. We care so much about what society and the people around us think, that we hinder ourselves in the process to improve. The most common way we do this is denial, chasing our losses, and hedonic editing. Admitting defeat, and accepting your failure is one of the hardest things to do, it makes us challenge the way we do things, and change can be a very scary thing. When people make mistakes, we tend to make rasher and more hard-pressed decisions, it clouds our judgements, and acts as a snowball rolling down a hill. Turning a small mistake, into a massive one that slowly goes out of control. The final most common reaction is hedonic editing. This means that we bundle our losses with our successes, trying to convince ourselves that the mistake we made is actually a success. These 3 reactions hinder us, not letting us see our failures and learning from them. Only if these 3 things are avoided, or moved past, can we start on the path to success.
Martin Luther King is known worldwide for his involvement with in the African American Civil Right Movement. He is someone who achieved great amounts of success in his goals, and brought a major change in the way America was run, allowing the African American race to gain civil rights, and ended segregation. Though he achieved greatness, his life still had failures. Some examples would be his failed leadership of the Albany protests, which damages his credibility as a leader. He joined to hastily and the campaign had too many aims and too many divisions. He also even struggled with bouts of depression over his personal and professional failures. His control over the civil movement was weakening, due to younger activists wanting a more militant approach, this eventually led his campaigns in northern cities, like Chicago to go largely unsuccessful.
Failure is not our demise, but our teacher, it is simply a pit stop on the road to success, it doesn’t inhibit us, but it allows to achieve more. As soon as we understand that success and failure are 2 parts to the same coin, can we hope to succeed in life.
Failure is something in life that cannot be avoided, it’s everywhere, and that’s what makes it beautiful. It makes people humble, shows responsibility, and makes you stronger. But most importantly, it is a tool for learning.
Failure teaches us many things, it teaches us to accept responsibility, and it teaches us to search for a different path. But most of all, it teaches us that it’s ok to fail, and all you can do is pick your self-back up and continue. The most successful people are the ones who fail the most, they have accepted the fact that success, can’t come without failure, and that they need to change what they are doing to finally succeed. They have a different outlook on life, allowing them to turn the “fear of falling” into the adventure of falling. Thomas Edison, the godfather of the lightbulb, didn’t create the life changing invention in 1 try, he had 10,000 prototypes, that’s 10,000 failures before he created his masterpiece. He changed the way the world worked, but only through his failures he was able to do so.
When it comes to learning from our failures, our own egos become the very thing that deny us. When something bad happens, it’s our natural reaction to do anything we can to protect our ego’s and reputation. We care so much about what society and the people around us think, that we hinder ourselves in the process to improve. The most common way we do this is denial, chasing our losses, and hedonic editing. Admitting defeat, and accepting your failure is one of the hardest things to do, it makes us challenge the way we do things, and change can be a very scary thing. When people make mistakes, we tend to make rasher and more hard-pressed decisions, it clouds our judgements, and acts as a snowball rolling down a hill. Turning a small mistake, into a massive one that slowly goes out of control. The final most common reaction is hedonic editing. This means that we bundle our losses with our successes, trying to convince ourselves that the mistake we made is actually a success. These 3 reactions hinder us, not letting us see our failures and learning from them. Only if these 3 things are avoided, or moved past, can we start on the path to success.
Martin Luther King is known worldwide for his involvement with in the African American Civil Right Movement. He is someone who achieved great amounts of success in his goals, and brought a major change in the way America was run, allowing the African American race to gain civil rights, and ended segregation. Though he achieved greatness, his life still had failures. Some examples would be his failed leadership of the Albany protests, which damages his credibility as a leader. He joined to hastily and the campaign had too many aims and too many divisions. He also even struggled with bouts of depression over his personal and professional failures. His control over the civil movement was weakening, due to younger activists wanting a more militant approach, this eventually led his campaigns in northern cities, like Chicago to go largely unsuccessful.
Failure is not our demise, but our teacher, it is simply a pit stop on the road to success, it doesn’t inhibit us, but it allows to achieve more. As soon as we understand that success and failure are 2 parts to the same coin, can we hope to succeed in life.