Don't fall completely apart when you fail. Instead, build yourself a new story.
Failure can be one of the most brutal things you will ever experience. It's hard to throw yourself fully into something and suffer the consequences of it not working out. But this post is much more than about failure. This past is about another critical component in the route towards success.
This is about making 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 all mess up from time to time, that's inevitable. We are going to have moments where we fail to be ourselves and who we are capable of being. We are going to be "outside of ourselves" sometimes. That's fine and it's a completely natural part of life. The only thing to avoid is to turn these mistakes into our failures as a person. Then, when you become a failure, things get really hard to recover from.
So how can you really stop this from happening?
Own your mistakes. Take full responsibility for them. Know that your mistakes are a natural part of life and that they don't have to be things that completely destroy your character. When you own your mistakes, to yourself and to others, you are free from guilt.
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 can be one of the most brutal things you will ever experience. It's hard to throw yourself fully into something and suffer the consequences of it not working out. But this post is much more than about failure. This past is about another critical component in the route towards success.
This is about making 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 all mess up from time to time, that's inevitable. We are going to have moments where we fail to be ourselves and who we are capable of being. We are going to be "outside of ourselves" sometimes. That's fine and it's a completely natural part of life. The only thing to avoid is to turn these mistakes into our failures as a person. Then, when you become a failure, things get really hard to recover from.
So how can you really stop this from happening?
Own your mistakes. Take full responsibility for them. Know that your mistakes are a natural part of life and that they don't have to be things that completely destroy your character. When you own your mistakes, to yourself and to others, you are free from guilt.
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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