Failing Your Way To Success

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Inventor Alexander Graham Bell said, “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”

I’ve failed many times in my professional life, but I kept at it. That’s known as commitment and persistence.

As a child, I learned how to ride a bike. It began with training wheels, but eventually the crutches were removed and keeping my balance became more difficult. Perhaps you had a similar experience. You struggled to stay upright, maybe even falling a few times and getting scraped up. Still, you got back on and tried again. You might not have realized it at the time, but you were learning an important early lesson about failure.

But that was a long time ago.

As youngsters, we knew we had to fall a few times to master this new skill. As we got older, though, we started to perceive making mistakes as a bad thing, rather than an essential ingredient in achieving our goal.

Successful people may not particularly enjoy their failures, but they recognize the value of those setbacks. To develop a new skill or reach a target, you must be committed to doing what it takes to get there—even if it means putting up with negative feedback or falling on your face now and then.

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