Failure is only a mindset, it is from failure that we gain strength, experience and learn lessons, if we choose to. It is after failure we pick ourselves up and get back onto the drawing board, re-strategize, and also to expose oneself to different ideas and different approaches, on the grounds that failure is very common. it was the famous inventor Thomas Edison Who said thus;
I have not failed, i have only found 10,000 ways that wouldnt work.
If you dwell only on only your mistakes, regrets and shortcomings, you only succeed in taking yourself backwards or stagnate yourself and go back into the safe shell of yours like a tortoise, missing the primary benefits of failure which is a chance that we learn and grow into what we dream to accomplish and achieve. For a person to have failed in an endeavor , it only ment he/she tried something, they took a step forward only to be hinderd, but guess what! it must stop there.
J.k Rowling's spoke to Harvard graduating class of 2008 about failures rather than sucess saying:
“You might never fail on the scale I did,” Rowling told that privileged audience. “But it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.
I urge we learn from History that failures cannot overcome persistence and determination. Staying safe or on. The fence doesn't mean you're a winner, but rather a failure in sheep's skin. Afraid to take a leap of faith. Afraid to dare.
According to the great basket baller Michael Jordan:
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
The only failure in anything is when you choose to 'give up'. i urge you to dare to dream the impossible, to go further, to go farther, practice the art of persistence and and remain determined until you achieve your set goals and dreams. Life is full of ups and downs, obstacles and challenges will come your way. what you do during these trying times is what defines you. You either choose to learn and keep moving forward, to dwell on mishaps or curl into your safe haven, for true success comes after series of failures, or should i say series of trials and errors.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison
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