Learning from our mistakes: Learning from failure

Learning from our mistakes: Learning from failure

Failing, in and of itself, is an integral part of the learning process that we, as human beings, must go through in order to advance ourselves in life. The challenge isn't in the process of failing, or making a mistake, it's in how we were trained to respond to our mistakes.Most people will try anything once. If they fail, they will likely never try again. Or, if they do try again, they won't let anybody know about it!Many of the most successful people in our society today have failed many more times than they have succeeded. The only difference between them and you is that they kept at it until they found a way to make it work.It is said that Thomas Edison "failed" at his attempts to invent the light bulb over 10,000 times. When he was asked how he kept going, he simply believed that what he had in fact done was discover 10,000 ways NOT to invent the light bulb!He never looked upon any of his attempts as failures. Instead, he saw them as a chance to learn and today you and I can sit by a lamp and read this article because of this man's belief in success and his not believing in failure!One thing you can do right now to begin moving yourself more in t