Is “Failure” Useful?
Clearly there are many more ways to fail than there are ways to succeed! Failure is easy, whereas success takes work. The “easy way out” invariably leads to failure. Sometimes the most creative people are steeped in failure; they find ever more creative ways – elaborate ways – to fail. Failure often begets more failure, and the vicious cycle self-perpetuates.
Many of the most successful people were at the absolute bottom of the failure funnel before turning their life around. I was one of those creative people who seemed to invent new twists to the art of non-success. I hit bottom, then I hit another even lower bottom, and finally an abysmal bottom…dark, bleak, empty nothingness. Of course there are hundreds of thousands – if not millions – just like me: for some unknown reason they simply must explore the bottom of life. But some will never reach despondence and utter despair. As long as you cling to an inner self-worth, an inner light or pride, you can exceed all expectations for success!
In my opinion, the “wealthiest” people – and this means so much more than dollars –have experienced a real “low point” along life’s pathway, and therefore they have a diamond-hardened appreciation for success and the resulting happiness. These wealthiest of people never forget where their motivation was born. Experiences can make us wealthy when useful knowledge is extracted from the details.
I love the term “useful”! This word is absolutely useful in the path to ultimate success. When anything or any event is encountered – both positive and negative – examine that event for its usefulness: ask yourself what have I learned from it! When practiced, this “usefulness” examination tends to cut through the nonsense to bring to light new realizations and possibilities. So useful is the term “useful”.
This is how all the greatest inventions were realized…through recognizing what is useful about each failure. And it takes practice to make a habit of realizing what is useful. Anthony Robbins first made me truly think about that word! If you’re not familiar with Anthony Robbins, I would tell you that you absolutely should be! He knew failure in his life and was ultimately able to extract what was useful…and develop it beyond belief!
Indeed, one foolproof way to prepare to succeed is to accept failure and examine its usefulness. If we are flexible enough in our thinking, we can find great usefulness in failure.
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