You Must Not Get Too Excited About Success-To-Failure Stories

What do we get out of every good story? A moral lesson.

What do we get out of every good success? What to do

What do we get out of every bad failure? What not to do

I know it is tempting to want to celebrate failure as a necessary pathway to success when we see the bios of so many successful people today who were once considered massive failure. Stories like those of Thomas Edison (and his one thousand experiments to invent the light bulb) and The Beatles are definitely needed to revive a tired spirit. But we must be careful.


The recipe for success in every failure story is not the failure in itself, it is three things; The right material (Edison, had a working formula, The Beatles had the golden talent), the right attitude (you have to have the mother of all never give up attitudes, "one thousand failures Thomas? Wow") and then you need simply try try again over and over again.

But what I see these days is a bit worrisome. Today, I see a lot  young people who have  failed because they either have no good material, no good attitude or simply gave up. Yet, they take pride in their failures as though it is an initiation ritual to success. They sit on their failures and wait for success.

If you take the percentage of failed rap artists who eventually turned nuclear-mega-successful, I bet you will re-evaluate. No disrespect to rappers.

But what I mean is that a NO isn't always representative of a future YES. Sometimes, it is just that, a big fat NO!!! We sometimes need to re-evaluate our material, our attitude and our willingness to try try again. If all the lights are green, then go ahead. But if the only thing sustaining your 'hustle' is the failure-to-success stories of others, with little or no special evaluation for your case, then you as a person probably need some psych-evaluation. #True

What transforms failures into successes is not the failure itself. You might have simply failed because you failed to pass. However, while sometimes it is imperative that we change lanes, it is never okay to stay defeated. I am not preaching a sermon of accepting defeats. No I, am talking about being honest enough to see failures for what they truly are, and being smart enough to make adjustments.

While I agree with you that every failure is an opportunity to start over, I can't hide the truth that every failure is an opportunity to evaluate the failure itself and to re-strategise for success. What the short Thomas Edison quotes you read online fail to tell you is that he did not conduct the exact same experiment a thousand times. No, he tried different things a thousand times with one result in mind. So every time you light up a bulb think, "Thomas did it differently and got results, why should I be set in my ways?"

Don't give up, don't give in. Just don't give blindly!