Use Mistakes As Stepping Stones To Success

Reflection #15 from my book titled,

Reflective Empowerment.

Reflection 15. Use mistakes as stepping stones to success

The only person who does not make a mistake is a person who does nothing. As

long as you are doing something, taking some action, being involved in some

activity, you must make a mistake. You are human. You are not perfect.

You do not have all the answers. You are fallible.

When you understand your humanity, you can make use of mistakes.

A mistake is an opportunity for you to learn what to avoid or what to do to

achieve your goal. When the inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Edison, tried

999 times to produce light and did not succeed, he persisted, and on the next try he

found the solution to produce light. When his friends asked him how it felt to

fail 999 times, and did such failure not discourage him, the inventor responded

by pointing out that he found 999 ways in which light was not produced. He saw

the mistakes that prevented light from being created as stepping stones to success.

Failure is only a bad thing when you stop trying because of it. The greater

your success, the greater number of mistakes you have usually made in

relation to the non-achievers. If you have passion for what you are doing,

and the courage to keep on trying despite ostensible failure,

great will be your reward.