Edison famously said that he did not have 1000 failures to construct a usable light bulb, he discovered 1000 ways not to make one. This implies a progress in failure.
One hears this often. So many people with eventual success worked their way through failure, sometimes significant failure. This implies that failure may be part of the process of success, as if failure in business or life was like a science lab where each setback purified the vision, clarified the next step and allowed for eventual success.
Failure as the co-enzyme of success.
But is that true? Is the real success a product of bad experiences or is it a combination of great energy, fortitude and vision overcoming the temporary? Everyone has failures. Is failure really a process or is success a function of the individual's ability to make it a process so that eventual success only heightens the appearance of the earlier drawback?
Are all failures opportunities to learn?
One hears this often. So many people with eventual success worked their way through failure, sometimes significant failure. This implies that failure may be part of the process of success, as if failure in business or life was like a science lab where each setback purified the vision, clarified the next step and allowed for eventual success.
Failure as the co-enzyme of success.
But is that true? Is the real success a product of bad experiences or is it a combination of great energy, fortitude and vision overcoming the temporary? Everyone has failures. Is failure really a process or is success a function of the individual's ability to make it a process so that eventual success only heightens the appearance of the earlier drawback?
Are all failures opportunities to learn?
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