Why Every Successful Person Embraces Failure

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Why Every Successful Person Embraces Failure
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• Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
  Ive lost almost 300 games. 26 times, Ive been
  trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.
  Ive failed over and over and over again in my
  life. And that is why I succeed. Unless youre
  an avid sports fan, you may not know that quote
  was said by Michael Jordan, basketballs biggest
  star and legend, and one of the most famous
  athletes ever.
• Look at Jordans career, and you may not
  comprehend how he understands about failure. Hes
  a six-time NBA champion, played on the All-NBA
  First Team 10 times and was a 14-time All-Star.
  He was named as One of 50 Greatest Players in NBA
  History and was even an Olympic gold medalist in
  1984 and 1992. And yet, its easy to see he
  hasnt forgotten those missed shots and losses.
  In fact, he contributes those failures as the
  reason he is now a success.
• While you probably understand failure is a
  necessary part of life, you probably dont
  welcome it or ask for it. And yet, its an
  essential part of success. If everyone could
  understand that without failure there is no
  success, they would be more excited when failure
  comes.

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Everyone Experiences Failure

• Failure is a natural part of life. Everyone
  experiences it throughout their lives. The more
  success a person has, the more failures they have
  experienced.
• Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electrical
  lamp, was told he was too stupid to learn
• Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper because he
  had no imagination
• Vera Wang tried to make the U.S. Olympic team as
  a figure skater and failed. She also failed to be
  promoted from editor to editor-in-chief at Vogue
  before becoming a well-known fashion designer
• Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting during
  his lifetime
• Sir James Dyson now has the most well-known
  bagless vacuum brand in the US, but it was only
  after 5,126 prototypes failed
• All of these people experienced failure, but you
  recognize either them or what made them
  successful. None of them let failure stop them,
  but took the opportunity to learn from it to
  achieve even greater results.

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Welcome Failure

• The difference between those who experience
  moderate success and those who take their success
  to new levels is the attitude they have about
  failure. While everyone knows failure happens,
  they often seek to move past it as quickly as
  possible. They hide it in a closet or under the
  rug and hope no one notices.
• The most successful people wear failure like a
  medal. They take it out and look it over and
  arent afraid to show it to others. Even more,
  they examine it with the goal of learning
  whatever lessons it has to teach.
• People with the right attitude towards
  failure seek to grow from it. They want to
  understand why it happened and what they could
  have done differently. They will learn how to
  avoid that same failure in the future. Of course,
  they will experience new failures, but they
  welcome those as the keys to continue growing.

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Changing Attitudes
People are born with the right attitude towards
failure. Look at children as they attempt to
learn new things. Curiosity and the desire to try
to do something new is natural to babies and
toddlers. Just watch a little one try to walk for
the first time. They will make multiple attempts,
each time resulting in a fall or failure.
Finally, one day, the child gets it right and
takes a first step. But wait! With just one or
two steps, the little one falls again, this time
much harder. Rather than being discouraged, the
child continues to get back up and work again to
figure out this complicated thing called walking.
That same attitude is present in every challenge
they take on. Its not until they are older, they
begin to fear failure.
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• As adults, that fear of failure prevents many
  from making an attempt to do something new or
  different. That mentality of what if I fail?
  keeps them in their safe zone, never willing to
  step out into the unknown. Its that attitude
  that limits the scope of their successes. Nothing
  risked, nothing gained is how everyone should
  look at failure. Instead of hiding from it, they
  should meet it head on, and dare it to enter
  their lives.
• For a successful athlete, Michael Jordan had a
  lot to say about failure. Ive never been afraid
  to fail, he has said. If the greatest basketball
  player can say that, how can everyone else have a
  lesser attitude? And what would Jordan think of
  those who are afraid of failure? I can accept
  failure, everyone fails at something. But I cant
  accept not trying.

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