How to move past the regret of failure

Tune in to your intuition and gut and stay away from your fears. When you know it is the right decision for you, you must never, ever give up.
Tune in to why it is important to stay motivated and surround yourself with like-minded people who can support and help pick you up when you fall.

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Why Failure Is Good for Success | SUCCESS

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The sweetest victory is the one that's most difficult. The one that requires you to reach down deep inside, to fight with everything you've got, to be willing to leave everything out there on the battlefield-without knowing, until that do-or-die moment, if your heroic effort will be enough.

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Thomas Edison on failure

Thomas Edison's most memorable invention was the light bulb, which purportedly took him 1,000 tries before he developed a successful prototype: “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?”

Failure Is Life’s Greatest Teacher

“Failure and defeat are life’s greatest teachers [but] sadly, most people, and particularly conservative corporate cultures, don’t want to go there...Instead they choose to play it safe, to fly below the radar, repeating the same safe choices over and over again. They operate under the belief that if they make no waves, they attract no attention; no one will yell at them for failing because they generally never attempt anything great at which they could possibly fail (or succeed).”

- Ralph Heath

Failure is essential for success

The prevailing school of thought in progressive companies—such as Intuit, General Electric, Corning and Virgin Atlantic—is that great success depends on great risk, and failure is simply a common byproduct. Executives of such organizations don’t mourn their mistakes but instead parlay them into future gains.

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The Importance of Failure (and 6 People Who Prove It)

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I sometimes feel that the way we approach failure is lacking. Or rather, I sometimes feel that the absence of discussion about failure causes us problems later on in our lives. Let me explain what I mean. Like many people, my childhood involved a pretty standard approach to the topics of success and failure.

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Importance of failure

We need to start talking about failure as life's master instructor. Experiences in failure are less about not finding success than they are about problem solving, and the skills cultivated a...

People who turned failing into success

JK Rowling. One of the most powerful modern writers whose net worth hovers around $1 billion was once living on welfare.
Walt Disney. Before the Disney empire was built, he was fired as a writer for lacking imagination and good ideas.
Oprah Winfrey was fired from her first TV job as a news anchor for being too emotionally invested in the stories she covered.
Steven Spielberg was rejected by the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts multiple times. Today, the profit of his movies exceeds $9 billion.
Lady GaGa, with 6 Grammy awards and entry to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, was dropped as a young artist after 3 months with record label Island Def Jam.
Stephen King's failure and rejection as a writer persisted well into his adult years, before striking gold with his story, Carrie.

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Why Perspective Taking Is an Essential Skill for Success

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Are you the kind of person who wants to achieve massive success in your life? Do you have the mental toughness to make that happen? I think we can all agree that no matter your ambitions, achieving success can be difficult; and over time, the daily grind can take a toll on your physical, mental, and emotional energy.

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What Perspective Taking Is

It’s the ability to take on someone else’s point of view when thinking.

By taking yourself out of the equation, the motivations of your opponent becomes clearer. And by understanding the othe...

Develop perspective taking

Put aside your feelings so that you can concentrate only on the other person’s perspective.
Use open ended questions that can help you draw out the interests and motivation that the person may not be verbalizing.
Be clear about your own position and the weaknesses it has.
Remove any personal intentions you may have, so as not to project them on to the other person.
Using what you know about the person, their background, their mood, their intentions and expectations, imagine how they are seeing the current situation.
Validate their position by paraphrasing back to them what you think their position is.

Using perspective taking

When you break it down, almost every aspect of business involves an element of negotiation.

By honing your perspective taking skills, you are much more likely to come up with solutions that are acceptable to all parties.