The Power of Failure



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7 To Be a Real Success, You Must Fail

The Introduction pointed out that most failures are simply challenges in progress. Whether these challenges ever arrive at success often depends on the strength and experience we bring to the challenge from struggling with past setbacks and failures.

Recently, a colleague e-mailed a revealing story that was circulating on the Internet about a butterfly. In the story, a man is watching a butterfly struggle to break out of its cocoon. After making some progress to work its way through a small hole, the butterfly appeared to simply stop its efforts. For some time it seemed to make no headway, so the man concluded it was stuck and decided to lend a helping hand by forming a larger ...