Why changing your view of failure can change your life
We have such a weird relationship with failure in this country, we’re terrified of it.
Our young people have instilled in them a complete fear of failing because of all the testing that goes on and it carries on through life.
Some of the most successful people have failed and failed spectacularly.
Edison the inventor of the lightbulb famously said “I have not failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that won’t work”.
Oprah Winfrey was sacked from an reporter job that she had because she got “too emotionally invested” in the stories.
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
Vera Wang had dreams of being an olympic figure skater but didn’t quite make it, so she persued a career in fashion instead.
Dyson took 15 years and 5127 prototypes to develop his revolutionary vacuum cleaner.
Maybe it’s time we embraced failure for the learning process that it is.
Oprah said “there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life moving us in another direction.”
