failure and success

Problems Make Us Better

Problems are NOT the Problem! - Matthew Kelly 

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“What problem are you experiencing today? What is it trying to teach you?

Every problem that occurs in our lives comes to teach us a lesson. The lessons can be understood only in relation to our essential purpose, which is to become the-best-version-of-ourselves. Every time you encounter a problem, ask yourself: 

What can I learn from this situation? 
How can this help me to become a-better-version-of-myself? 
What particular virtue can this problem help me to grow stronger in?

Problems are opportunities to build character. The problems that we encounter each day give us a chance to abandon our egos and our overindulged personal preferences in order to grow in flexibility and patience. Problems are one of the time-tested paths to personal growth. The most significant periods of growth occur for most people when they are faced with problems. In fact, many of us ignore the need to grow until we are faced with problems.”

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More Than Your Mistakes

You Are NOT the Worst Thing That Has Happened to You - Matthew Kelly

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“The individual experiences of our lives cannot be separated from the whole. Life is not a series of separate episodes. All of life’s experiences thus far have played a part in the person you are right now. The common reaction to this statement is to recall some negative event in our past and use it as an excuse for the person we are today. Such adoption of victimhood is one of the most destructive spirits at work in the human psyche today. Victimhood denies the great truth that life is choices.

The point I want to make here is that we are not a composite of everything that has ever happened to us, but rather what happens in our lives is almost always a result of those things we habitually think and those things we habitually do. Life is the fruit of discipline, or lack of it. Life is the fruit of intentionality, or lack of it.

Every disciplined effort gives birth to multiple, almost endless, rewards.”

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The Key to Failing Well: Lessons From Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein - Matthew Kelly

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“Both Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein powerfully illustrated this lesson. Both of these men suffered through failure more than most, and yet they became our greatest inventor and mathematician, respectively. Day after day they grappled with trial and error, mistakes and frustration, disappointment and defeats, and moments of complete disillusionment. But they viewed these set- backs, adversities, defeats, and failures as clues to the discoveries they were seeking. They genuinely believed that their failures signified progress. 

The story of Edison’s effort to find a way to keep a lightbulb burning is well known. He tried more than ten thousand combinations of materials before he found the one that worked. People asked him later in his life how he could continue after failing that many times. He said he didn’t see the other attempts as failures. He then went on to explain that he had successfully identified ten thousand ways that didn’t work and that each attempt brought him closer to the one that would. He saw his failures as progress. 

Einstein, whom many people believe to be the smartest man who ever lived, said, “I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” 

Why do we perpetuate the belief that it is not okay to fail? Failure plays an important role in our development and a critical role in our attempts to become perfectly ourselves. Whatever pattern of defeat you may find yourself in right now, remember these three abiding truths: 

1. Other people before you have successfully overcome the obstacles you face; seek them out and draw strength from their stories and example. 

2. All of your past failures leave you better equipped than ever before to succeed in your next attempt. 

3. It will never be easier to break that pattern of defeat than it is right now. 

Allow the words of Benjamin Barber to echo deep within you: 

I divide the world into learners and non-learners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons. When they do something stupid, they don’t do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a non-learner.”

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Failure Is Part of All Great Achievement - Matthew Kelly

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“Another of the great secrets that we often overlook is that failure is a part of all great achievement and discovery. 

We live in a culture obsessed with success, and as a result we unconsciously foster the attitude that it is not okay to fail. We often measure a person’s value by his or her success. Of course, this judgment turns on us when we fail, and we tend to take it personally. If you fail, you aren’t a failure. 

I think baseball teaches us more about failure than any other sport does. A great hitter has a batting average of perhaps 350. What does that tell us? It tells us that he succeeds in hitting the ball only thirty-five percent of the time. What else does it tell us? It tells us that he fails sixty-five percent of the time. 

Francis T. Vincent Jr., while commissioner of baseball, made these observations in a speech at Fairfield University: 

Baseball teaches us, or has taught most of us, how to deal with failure. We learn at a very young age that failure is the norm in baseball and, precisely because we have failed, we hold in high regard those who fail less often—those who hit safely in one out of three chances and become star players. I also find it fascinating that baseball, alone in sport, considers errors to be a part of the game, part of its rigorous truth. 

We must never allow our spirit to be stifled by failure. Failure is a part of progress, not a final outcome.”

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Baseball’s Greatest Lesson: Failure is a Part of Success – Matthew Kelly

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“The greatest lesson baseball teaches us is how to fail. It may sound insane at first, but just as failure is an indispensable part of what made Albert Einstein a genius and Thomas Edison a genius, failure is part of baseball’s genius too. 

One of life’s greatest lessons is that failure is a part of any great achievement.

Baseball teaches us more about failure than any other sport. With a batting average of .350 you are the best in the world. That means the best in the world fail sixty-five percent of the time. 

While he was the Commissioner of Baseball, Fay Vincent described it perfectly when he said, 

“Baseball teaches us how to deal with failure. We learn at a very young age that failure is the norm in baseball and, precisely because we have failed, we hold in high regard those who fail less often—those who hit safely in one out of three chances and become star players. I also find it fascinating that baseball, alone in sport, considers errors to be a part of the game, part of its rigorous truth.”

Powerful insights. Failure is part of success. Mistakes are part of life.”

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What is failure and what is success we find the never ending cycling of both on the way to success
Who chooses what success is and what failure is? Some feel doing and achieving is IT and others feel generosity and compassion is the way and yet others feel silence and stillness is the greatest achievement.
Why is one group right and the other not? So is there really any success and failure, or is it all in our minds?
Time to question our reality:)