Model for Success
Kevin Day, April 13th, 2008I stumbled on this motivational article and I like it’s perspective on success and failure.
This is the traditional way of relating success and failure:
SUCCESS <– YOU –> FAILURE
But this is the way it really works, and is how you should view success and failure:
YOU –> FAILURE –> SUCCESS
FTA:
What if, rather than seeing failure as something to be avoided, it became a “stepping stone” on the path to success? Put another way: Yes is the destination, but “no” is how you get there. To achieve significant success in today’s world, top performers do not see success and failure – yes and no – as opposites, rather opposite sides of the same coin that depend on each other.
Are you reading the journal I don’t write? Timely.
Always hard to handle when it happens, but a little easier with the understanding that it’s a necessary step in the right direction.
I liked your related "formula for success" twitter, too.
- Jeff Schuler, April 13th, 2008, 12:03 pmThe Tom Watson quote I got from "The 4-hour work-week," which has a bunch of good ones. Although my favorite of all-time is from Homer Simpson:
"Son, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."
- Kevin Day, April 15th, 2008, 7:17 am