I believe there’s no such thing as failure. One of the most important lessons that I’ve learned from working with successful people over the years is that ‘failure’ is an attitude, not an outcome. That is, it’s nothing to do with the results you produce and everything to do with how you perceive things. For example, after Thomas Edison’s seven hundredth unsuccessful attempt to invent the electric light, he was asked by a New York Times reporter, “How does it feel to have failed seven hundred times?” The great inventor responded with a classic example of a positive perspective: “I have not failed seven hundred times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those seven hundred ways will not work. When I have eliminated all the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 03:51:08 +0000
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