Many times, we hear stories of people giving up on their dreams and aspirations. One often wonders why, some of the people who were voted "most likely to succeed", in high school grow up to be silent nobodies! More often than not, the culprit is failure.
Quite often in life, we find ourselves, face to face with failure. It's a very common occurrence and a very powerful one too. Failure has seen people with great potentials, loose faith in themselves. It has truncated quite a few destinies and made mockery of a lot of dreams.
The question now is, has failure failed to visit the people who have managed to succeed and make their dreams come true? Are they immune in some sort of way or they lucky? No no no. You will be surprised to know that, they have experienced failure in more ways than one. So what did they do, when failure looked them in the face?! Instead of looking away or looking down, they stared it back in the face! Looked at it quite thoroughly, analyzed it and planned strategic ways to prevent it from occurring again.
Albert Einstein tried the light bulb experiments, 99 times and failed. However the 100th experiment was successful. Now people concentrate on the fact that he continued, but forget the fact that he didn't keep carrying out the experiment the same way every time! After each experiment, he made changes until it was just right.
Failure in itself isn't evil. It is actually a blessing in disguise. Failure should be seen as a compass, unerringly showing you flaws and shortcomings to be addressed, to tweak it or change it. It is therefore foolishness to keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
Failure is also a refiner, without which your idea will be bland or just raw without finesse. The heat is the reason why the corn pops. Without the heat, its just corn. Without failure, dreams remain dreams because people rarely get it right the first time! Failure, well handled can lead to great success.
The most important thing therefore is a willingness to learn from life's failures and mistakes. Failure doesn't mean you aren't good enough, it only means you have to work a little harder, think a little deeper and persist a little more and you will succeed in the end.
Blessings
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