There's Hope For TodaySample

Abraham Lincoln’s life was marked by multiple failures and remembered for success. Lincoln stands out as an exaggerated example of what we often see in great achievers: an unwillingness to abandon the stage to failure.

I learned to walk through a process we all know as “trial and error.” I tottered, I tumbled, I bruised, I bawled, but I kept getting up and I hardly fall down anymore. Babe Ruth is remembered for his home runs, but he also led the league in strike-outs! The greatest baseball players fail to get a hit two out of three times at bat – but they don’t quit. The great quarterbacks only get a few touchdowns, when you compare their throws to completions. Thomas Edison saw each failed experiment as an opportunity to begin again, “more intelligently.” High-flying entrepreneurs have experienced an average of 3.8 catastrophic failures on the way to success.

It seems that you have to sort through a few turkeys to find the golden goose. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school team in his sophomore year. It’s probably one of the best things that ever happened to the sport of basketball.

Nobody lives a failsafe life. Learn from your losses.

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better teacher.