If you didn’t experience failures in your life, you didn’t take any risks or you didn’t get real about your life at all. How to approach failure? Many gigantic persona set inspirational examples for us.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, said “I’ve made billions of dollars of failures,” adding that it would be like “a root canal with no anesthesia” if he listed them. “If you’re going to take bold bets, they’re going to be experiments,” Mr. Bezos explained. “And if they’re experiments, you don’t know ahead of time if they’re going to work. Experiments are by their very nature prone to failure. But a few big successes compensate for dozens and dozens of things that didn’t work.
J.K.Rowling, the author of “Harry Potter”, gave a best speech about failure at Harvard Commence. She said; “So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.”
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, said: “failure is an option here. If thins are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” “If something is important enough, you should try, even if the probable outcome is failure.”
Well, how do we approach failure? The answer is simply and clear: failure is a part of life, face it, shrug off it and don’t beat yourself up because of it. Knowing it couldn’t work out this way, so try to find a better way to work it out.
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