Everyone fails at one time or another. Steven Spielberg was rejected by the
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts three times. The
Beatles were dropped by their record label when first starting out and told
they had no future in show business. Michael Jordan was cut from his high
school basketball team. Hard to believe these megastars ever had a failure in
their lives, but it happens to us all—and we don’t like it. Not in work,
not in our personal lives. So hearing that failure can be a good thing sounds bogus…but
it has validity.
Oftentimes we fail when we try something the first
time. Hitting a baseball on the first pitch, learning to ride a bike, selling a
new product to a customer. So knowing that fact, failure should be no big deal,
right? Reality is that it’s difficult to realize in the moment that failure is
what can lead to success. The sting of failure can take over. But without
failing, we would never be driven to reassess how we approach things or learn
how to do them better. Improvement would be obsolete and so would we.
Barry LaBov
LABOV Marketing Communications and Training
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