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To achieve the greatest success, you have to embrace the prospect of failure (Pauline Esteem August 25, 2016)
The sweetest victory is the one that's most difficult. The one that require you to reach down deep inside, to fight with everything you've got, to be willing to leave everything out there on the battlefield – without knowing, until that do-or-die moment, if your heroic effort will be enough. Society doesn't reward defeat and you won't find many failures documented in books.
The exceptions are those failures that become stepping stones to later success. Such is the case with Thomas Edison, whose most memorable invention was the light bulb, which purportedly took him 1,000 tries before he developed a successful prototype. “How did he feel to have failed 1,000 times? A reporter asked.”I didn't fail 1,000 times” Edison responded. “The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.”
Failure is Life Greatest Teacher
When we take a closer look at the great achievers throughout history, a willingness to take on failure isn't a new or extraordinary thought at all. From the likes of Augustine, Darwin and Freud to the business mavericks and sport legends of today, failure is as powerful a tool as any in reaching great success. Failure and defeat are life's greatest teachers (but), most people and particularly conservative corporate cultures, don't want to go there. (And failure is the power of taking risks, making mistakes and thinking big). Instead they choose to play it safe, to fly below radar repeating the same safe choice over and over. They operate under the belief that if they make no waves, they attract no attention; no one will yell at them for failing because they generally never attempt anything great at which they could possibly fail (or succeed).
However, in today's post- recession in economy, some employers are no longer shying away from failure- they're embracing it. Recently, many companies are deliberately seeking out those with tract records reflecting both failure and success, believing that those who have been in the trenches, survived battle and came out on the other side have irreplaceable experience and perseverance.
The Quickest Road to Success is to possess an Attitude toward failure of “no fear”.
Reaching Your Potential
The same holds true for personal quests, whether in overcoming some specific challenges or reaching your full potential in all aspects of life. To achieve your personal best, to reach unparalleled heights, to make the impossible possible, you can't fear failure; you must think big and have to push yourself. Then we think of people with this mindset, we imagine the dare devils, the pioneers, the inventors, the explorers! They embraced failure as a necessary step to unprecedented success. But you don't have to walk a tightrope, climb Mount Everest, or cure polio to employ this mindset in your own life.
When the rewards of success are great, embracing possible failure is key to taking on a variety of challenges, whether you're reinventing yourself by starting a new business or allowing yourself to trust another person to build a deeper relationship. “To achieve any worthy goal, you must take risk”.
Easing into a fearless mindset.
One of the biggest secret to success is operating inside your strength zone but outside of your comfort zone”.
Although you might fail incredibly, you might succeed incredibly, - and that's incredible risk and courage are requisite.
Either way, you'll learn more than ever about your strengths, talents and resolves, and you'll strengthen your mind for the next challenge. If this sounds like dangerous territory, it can be, but there are ways to ease into this fearless mindset. Some of the steps to follow in easing into a fearless mindset include:
1. Maintain a positive attitude.
The first is to consciously maintain a positive attitude so that, no matter what you encounter, you'll be able to see the lessons of the experience and continue to push forward.
2. Reading and listening to motivational material.
Second, continually reading and listening to materials that bolster that attitude and stays motivated by the thought that, “if I become complacent and don't take risks, someone will notice what I am doing and improve upon my efforts over time and put me out of work. You've got to keep finding better ways to run your life, or someone will take what you've accomplished, improve upon it and be very pleased with the results.
“Keep moving forward or die”
- Akanmu Abdul Hafeez
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