A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. Successful persons have had setbacks at one time or another. What we hear or read about great persons, is a revised resume that deliberately leaves out some lows/downturns experienced on the road to success.
The bible attests to the fact that a righteous man falls seven times, but the Lord picks him up. Defeat is a state of mind, and successful people are good at salvaging something from every setback.
Thomas Edison, a famous Bostonian inventor of electricity said this about his several attempts at coming up with a light bulb, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that wont't work". He had this attitude that "if we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves". Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do, doesn't mean it's useless. In fact some inventions came about as an accident.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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Thanks for joining the fast lane. Visionaries like you need to have their thoughts out for all of us to be inspired. You are my hero and role model!
ReplyDeleteLike the blog so far! Will tag it. I like the opening sentence " a failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience". I could use this phrase to describe certain people in my country, Zimbabwe.
ReplyDeleteWonderful stuff. Most of the time we lose hope as a result of our failures,but if we keep on trying we wil make it.
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