Benefits of Failure

I have benefitted more from failure than from success.

What is failure? There are probably as many definitions for failure as there are people, and even more examples. Failure is an individual thing and we can all share a few examples from our own life story.

For me failure is defined as my best teacher. It has always been the best motivation for learning. Anytime I encountered what was a failure, my original response was "to try the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Not only would I try the same thing over and over again I would try it harder each time, putting more and more into it. The best failures were the most severe ones. They were the ones where I automatically knew that trying again and again or harder than ever before wasn't going to be the answer.

The failures that taught me the most were the ones from which I walked away knowing that only new thinking is going to fix this. Those failures that were of grandeur proportions that stopped me in my tracks were the ones that forced me to seek new solutions and learn ways that worked. The biggest failures were the best failures.

We have all experienced failures over the course of our lives and what we can do is share the success of our failures for the good of all.

Remember you learn more from failure than you do success.