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6 Ways Failing is Necessary for Success
Failing is necessary
- Failure is an opportunity to learn by transforming your failure into an opportunity to reflect and grow.
- Failure is the universe daring you to evolve.
- Failure fuels success.
- Failure exposes your weaknesses, but with self reflection, they can be turned into strengths.
- Failure forges greatness. You really can't know and understand success without first having failed.
- Failure reminds you why it's so important to pay it forward.
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Failing is necessary
- Failure is an opportunity to learn by transforming your failure into an opportunity to reflect and grow.
- Failure is the universe daring you to evolve.
- Failure fuels success.
- Failure exposes your weaknesses, but with self reflection, they can be turned into strengths.
- Failure forges greatness. You really can't know and understand success without first having failed.
- Failure reminds you why it's so important to pay it forward.
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Thomas Edison on failure
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
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