Tuesday 23 October 2018

Overcoming failure

You are only a failure if you say so

No one is born a winner. No one. Even the great successful people failed at some point. In fact, most successful people are actually the world’s greatest failures. They people failed the most. The reason they are not called that today is because they didn’t accept failures and his laid there, down and out. No they got up after each failure and tried again. Maybe with little adjustments but got up.

The people who say they’ve never failed are actually they greatest failures. Because they failed to try. When a child learns to walk, he fails many times. I think this should be a lesson to all of us. Failure is not the enemy. Failing to try is.

If you don’t try, you’ll never feel the pain of failing. You’ll never in how it’s like to cry in your sleep thinking you are they most stupid person in the world. You’ll never experience the shame you get after pitching an idea you worked on for months only to have a boardroom full of people laughing at you. You’ll never feel the pitch of being cornered between everything you live, and an idea you’re willing to die for. At the same time, you’ll never experience true success. Contentment. You’ll never feel the pride of getting up. To look down and say, “I did that. I made that”.

I wish my son failure. I wish home to opportunity to gain pride in his success. The ability to get up, go beyond your father did. The ability to say “I”, not my father, not my grandfather. “I” changed the cause of history in my family. I did that. I interfered with the system. I did what no one in my family ever did. I did that.

Black child. You can be that person. Dare to fail, for in failure we gain the greatest knowledge. We assess our lives. We get reed of bad friends. We gain our true identity. In failure, we restrategise, reorganize, and plan our next wave of attack. It’s in this phase that our success is earned. I chose to fail forward.