Failure: learn from it as it falls to the feet. Step on it and RISE. Never put your “head” on a falling “object” as it can crunch!
In business, I’ve noticed two types of individuals. The first group make mistakes, but they quickly learn, forgiving themselves, and putting those experiences under their feet, and then leap on them to RISE.
The second group also makes mistakes – we’re all humans – but unlike the first group, they never forgive themselves. They put the mistakes on their heads, and unfortunately, get overwhelmed.
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For all great autobiographies with many victories, remember one thing: editors edit out failures which make those amazing stories because having them will take all the space.
Failure is a subset of success because in any success, there is failure. The key is what happens when you meet failure: put it under the feet or carry on the head; your choice.
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Failure, or rather, Mistakes, whether born of Ignorance or Denial, is a human quality. It’s only human to err.
It’s not a question of whether you will err, it’s rather about what you do after you have erred. The single biggest mistake we are all often guilty of is always managing for success instead of “failure” as failure is more prevalent than success. What we do after we have erred can either make or mar the game. Do we Iterate and keep playing, or do we simply Capitulate just because we erred? Stuff like this isn’t taught in schools. Schools teach us to be perfect humans who don’t make mistakes.
There’s nothing like Failure, only Defeat. It’s only over when you advertently or inadvertently say that it is. The game of life is Infinite, meaning, the rules are not all predefined. We make them as we go.
There are two things in this world that has the capacity to Defeat you, those are your Ignorance and your Denials. So, long as you continue to accumulate capabilities that allows you to iterate ahead or after a mistake, you will be fine. This is why Startups are the best things to happen to Innovation, they’re masters of Iteration.
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