“Every successful man today was once a failure” Tom Watson Sr. (of IBM fame) said, “If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.” But not everybody knows this principle, if you ask any aspiring business man today, what do you want, he will simply tell you success, he will never choose failure, you should know just as every house has foundation, so does success, nature brought failure and success, meaning that they both works together, when it comes to success, failure is the best teacher, it teaches you the road to follow, if you have failed before, it helps you amends all your mistakes, leaving you with a strong, sound and wise mentality to maintain your success, if you look at the life of some most successful individuals, you see that their beginnings where bunch of failures, taking the life of
1.ABRAHAM LINCOLN; This was a man who failed in business at the age of 21 ; was defeated in a legislative race at age 22; failed again in business at age 24; overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26; had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional race at age 34; lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was elected president of the United States at age 52, hell, if it were to be us, we would have definitely given up at the first and second trial, but not considering the remaining chances we have, if you studied this man’s life closely you will find out that his success was built on the foundation of his failure, all he had to do was just to learn from his failure, another personality we will be considering is.
2.THORMAS EDISON; The same four year old partially deaf boy, that was driven away from school with a note in his pocket from his teacher, “Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the school.” His mother read the note and answered, “My Tommy is not stupid to learn, I will teach him myself.” Yes the same boy that failed 9,999 times in his attempt to refined the light bulb, what comes to your mind when you hear the word 9,999 times and for him to still continue, meant that he was not bothered about his failure and yet he continued and on the 10,000 attempt he achieved his goal, what was he really doing that made him spent such time, he was simply learning, yes, probably when he tried out the first step it didn’t work out he had to adjust his ways and method and tried out another way,
3. WALT DISNEY; As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors, who said he had no talent. Even fired from one who told him he lacked imagination and original ideas. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some cartoons. Disney was working out of a small mouse infested shed near the church. After seeing a small mouse, he was inspired. That was the start of Mickey Mouse. He was regard as a failure but did he give up no, instead the failure made him stronger, and made him pursued his ambitions with a full force, I can go on and on giving you examples of people who became successful through their failure, like I said before failure is a stepping stone to success, leave it or take it, every successful man was one time a failure, but if we can learn from the mistakes we made that made us failure, definitely we are on the road to success
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