Making mistakes is good for us, they are another step that will lead us to success. And for the following reasons.
Almost everyone knows that Michael Jordan has been removed from his high school basketball team. However, few people know that Walt Disney was once kicked out of the newspaper due to a lack of ideas, and his first cartoon company went bankrupt.
After all the success that Dustin Hoffman has, it’s hard to believe that he worked as a psychiatrist and nurse because his first attempts at acting in New York were not successful. Can you imagine Bob Dylan being booed from the stage during a talent contest in his high school?
It’s also hard to understand that Steven Spielberg wasn’t admitted to UCLA film school because of average grades. We also easily forget that Steve Jobs was kicked out of Apple in his 30s.
In fact, each of us will fail at some point in life, but it can be beneficial for us, if we don’t give up, we are willing to learn from it, work on ourselves and move on because of it. Failure can become a decisive moment, a crossroads on the way through our life. It’s a test that shows us how we’re doing with courage, endurance, determination, and how much we’re willing to sacrifice ourselves for something.
Will I give up at the first difficulties? Or will I grit my teeth after falling and try again and again?
Failure is a great opportunity to evaluate how much we really want something! Will I ditch it or delve deeper into it, give it more, do I do it and get better at it?
On the other hand, sometimes failure helps us take another path, which may be better for us in the long run. … Sometimes we lose our dream goal just to find our destiny. Sometimes failure helps us realize that we actually want something else.
Whatever path failure leads us, its purpose is always to give us a great deal of humility that creates our character. It gives us perspective, helps our faith grow, and thanks to this, we later value success much more. If we didn’t make a mistake, we wouldn’t have anything to win over.
So when you make another mistake, don’t let her stop you from living the life you were born for! Learn to see your mistakes as life lessons, as your personal teachers, as a detour towards better results, and as something to make you a better version of yourself.
Failure should not be final or fatal. It doesn’t define you! It serves to make you everything to be.
Once you start looking at failure as a blessing instead of a curse, you turn the gift of mistakes into a step to progress.
-Jon Gordon
