The failure is defined by the DRAE as the failure or adverse result of a company or business, a pitiable, unexpected and unfortunate event or ruin fall or crash and break something. I’m not very aligned with that definition. Moreover, it seems a vital part to the growth of any person: passionate with failure, fail to teach is the key, to take willingly fall. Without failure there is no success.
John Keats, the English poet, once wrote: ‘In a sense, failure is the road to success, since every discovery of what is false leads us to look forward to what is true, and every new experience we It points out some form of error below carefully avoid.
The ten most common causes of failure are:
One, the old trick of blaming others, sometimes we attribute success or failure to good or bad luck, as if luck was a God or Goddess intervenes in the affairs of men. Very few are willing to recognize immediately: Maybe it’s mine- fault; usually the fault of another, but almost never mine.
Two, blame ourselves so hard. Why do you always say we have to screw up? Why I have been so stupid? … Instead of struggling with the problem to solve, avoid a repeat, what we do is blame.
When Major General William F. Dean was released by his communist captors, it is said that a reporter asked what had held him alive for 3 years of suffering. He said, “I never felt sorry for myself, and that was what helped me. Self-pity defeats more people than anything else. Or we can go from self-blame to self disapproval, and thence to self-loathing, and therefore, even self-destruction. ”
Three, have no written goal. Therefore, all are doubts. No sail through life with a clear and definite direction.
Four, choose wrong goals. There are hundreds of men and women who attributed a great success, but acknowledged experience a sense of failure. They had set eyes on a goal and let this represent his self-realization, and when they reached it, they found that was not what I craved. It was the wrong goal that destroyed them.
Five, the shortcut. Many of us instinctively choose the shortest, easiest and fastest way to success, only to find that success was illusory route. No conquest can not be achieved without hard work.
Sixth hurdle is exactly opposite to the fifth: take the longest path. Sometimes we choose long and complicated ways to achieve simple goals.
Seventh, neglecting the little things. Edison lost a patent due to a misplaced decimal. The good executive keeps the finger pointing small things. Oscar Hammerstein II once watched a close-up photograph of the Statue of Liberty taken from a helicopter. The head of the statue was revealed in the smallest details and Hammerstein noted that the sculptor had made a thorough work with the hair of women. In his time, he could hardly know anyone, with the possible exception of a seagull, would never see that hair. But, he granted the same care as the face, arm and torch.
Eighth hurdle is giving up too soon. Elihu Root once said: “Men do not fail; They give up trying. ”
Ninth obstacle is the weight of the past. Memories of the past can instil courage, confidence and creative force; or they can imprison us in a dark cloud of depression and defeat. David Livingstone, the great explorer once said: “I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward.”
The Tenth obstacle is the illusion of success. The victory loses its value unless we use it as a means to achieve even greater goals. In itself, it is a temporary victory.
And I end with St. Jerome: “Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”
Much success and much joy in this journey of life, is my wish for you.