FAILING, no body likes failing anything, many even hate the
word “fail”. This, in my opinion, is because of the pain attached to failing.
It’s a fact, that all living things- humans and animals- move away from pain to
pleasure (may be only the masochist). This may not sound so sweet for even me
to say, but, for big success you must have some failures.
Humans are imperfect,
and despite our quest for excellence our imperfect nature makes us make
mistakes (maybe that’s why every pencil is made with an eraser, so that we can
erase our mistakes). The truth is that mistakes and failures are part of life.
But, sad to say that many see making mistakes or failing as
bad, in our schools the child is severely punished for making a mistake or his
parents severely punish him for failing his exams, and he grows up with the
fear of making mistakes or failing.
Failures and mistakes has being the building block of every
civilization and invention. Take Thomas Edison a very ingenious famous
inventor, you may have read about him, Edison is the inventor of the
incandescent lamp, which serves as a model for many light bulbs we see today.
Edison failed or made mistakes hundreds of times while trying to invent the
incandescent lamp. But, each mistake ended up making him a legend. He converted
his failures or mistakes to success by learning from them. Or take Christopher
Columbus and ingenious Italian- born Spanish navigator, he experienced failures
while trying to find a route to the indices. He converted his failure to
success by discovering America. Both Edison and Columbus understood that
failure played a role in being successful.
In the book rich dad poor dad by Robert kiyosaki a New York
Times best selling author, he said that “his rich dad constantly used the
example of learning to ride a bicycle to teach him the lesson in mistakes”. You
will, agree with me that you can’t teach a person how to ride a bicycle but,
the person can learn, so it is with financial success, you can’t teach a person
how to be successful but, the person can learn how to be successful.
Learning how to ride a bicycle requires injuries, pain,
mistakes or failures, when you do learn it you start riding like a pro and you
can even go pro. Same goes for being financially successful it requires, pain,
mistakes and failures, but, when you become financially successful you will not
trade the mistakes and failures for anything. Simply put, you can’t have big
success without failures and mistakes.
The biggest failure is a person, who has never failed and a
person who never learns from his mistakes and failures. Imagine an individual
on a farm land seriously angry with the ground, stumping and punching the ground;
you walk up to him to ask what the problem is? He says “just look at this
ground, two years ago I planted corn expecting beans, it gave me corn, last
year the same thing, this year the same thing. I believe you will agree with me
that, the individual is insane. This is how many people try to solve their
financial problems. Albert Einstein said “ insanity is defined as doing the
same thing over and over again expecting a different result” with that definition a person does not have to
be in an asylum with a straight jacket before he or she can be considered
insane).
Please let no body make you believe that, because you failed
in a particular activity, you are a failure. If you make mistakes while you try
to improve your skills, you are on your way to being excellent and successful.
I will repeat it again; mistakes and failures make you successful. But if you
keep on making the same mistake over and over and over again and never learning
from them, then I would have to admit that you are a failure.
In this game of trying to earn a living, in trying to make
money you need to accept your imperfections, your tendency to make a mistake.
This is a realistic way to of understanding how to cope with your failures or
mistakes and to convert them to success.
I wish you the best. Thanks for reading this article.
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