Learn from failures

We are afraid of failing, so much so that, sometimes, we do not undertake because we are not sure of achieving our objectives.. They say that when Thomas Alva Edisson presented one of his inventions – the light bulb – someone told him that he had failed many times to achieve success, to which he replied: “I have not failed; I know many ways not to make a light bulb.” Learning from failures can be extremely enriching.

If we check the statistics, Ninety percent of new products fail, yet new products continue to hit the market. Why is it like this? Because it is necessary to make mistakes to learn and do better next time. Without this, we wouldn’t have a chance.

It is impossible to achieve success without first failing.

We admire many successful people, but are we aware of the number of failures they had to learn from? We only see the result of a path that, most likely, has not been especially easy.

That is the spirit we have to incorporate into failure; We are doomed to fail many more times than to succeed, but If we are able to learn from each attempt, failure will make sense in itself.

Failing is the norm, we have to learn to live with failure because it is part of our reality and is unavoidable. It is necessary to walk a path of wrong trials to achieve our objective and, in most cases, When we are very tired of failing so much, of failing so much, that is when we are closest to achieving what we want.

If we think that talent is something fixed, we will see failure as a lost opportunity to show how much we are worth; it will be a painful and counterproductive experience. Instead of learning from failures, we will develop a fear that will paralyze us.

But if we think that Talent is incremental, which is the fruit of tensions, challenges, mistakes and efforts. When we fail we will not feel it as a form of humiliation.but a way to stretch our limits, to go further, to increase our possibilities.

Let’s take the first step out of our comfort zone

Without failure there is no improvement, so Congratulate yourself for having put in more effort than for the results achieved. Congratulate yourself, too, on what you have learned in this effort, which will allow you not to make this mistake in the future, and congratulate yourself because, if you persist, you will get there.

In the comfort zone, where we have everything under control, you don’t fail, but you don’t grow either. We are limited by our own safety. We must make a conscious and deliberate effort to go out and face the unknown, what we do not control, the failure that will lead us to our goal, making us strong and creative.

This requires great willpower, since learning from failures is not always an easy task. We have to deal with insecurity, with the fear of rejection, with the fear that others will laugh at our mistakes and the lack of support for it. You have to put aside all fear and move forward no matter what happens. The stones on the road are a help, not a reason to turn back.

Believe in yourself, in your abilities, in your talents, in your possibilities and go out, knowing that you will fail, because that is how you will grow. And if it’s not too much to ask, make a list of things you can do better or things you don’t dare and would like to do, choose one or two and go for it.

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