Idea 13: Successes and failures
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same…
Rudyard Kipling
Because successful people tend to work hard, they generate a lot more successes and failures than other people. What they have a knack for doing is to turn their failures into contributors to their eventual success. As Soichiro Honda once said:
Success is 99 percent failure.
After 10,000 attempts to develop the electric light bulb, a friend suggested to Thomas Edison that he should accept defeat. He famously replied:
I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that it won't work.
Exercise
Identify two failures in your working life and two failures in your personal life. Now write down the ‘success lessons’ ...
Get John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Personal Success now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
