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11 Powerful Lessons To Learn That Only Failure Can Teach Us

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No one likes to fail.
In fact, most people would do almost anything to avoid failure.

They consider the lengths they have to resort to a fair price to pay — just so they don’t have to go through the experience of failing.
But they’re missing something incredibly valuable: They’re losing out on the lessons failure teaches.

Failure is golden when you know what you can learn from it.
And this is what this article is all about.
Here are the 11 golden lessons that we can learn from our failures.

1. Failures always come before success.
The world’s greatest inventors didn’t succeed the first time out.

They stumbled and fell, sifted through the failed experience, and went on to devise and create something better, stronger, more durable, memorable, and valuable.
For them, failure wasn’t the end, but the beginning of a journey to success.

2. Failure gives you a starting point to move on.
Once you’ve failed, you have an open page ahead of you.

Of course, you can stall and remain fixated at that point on the page,
but the lure of opportunity ahead should compel you to take action.

3. Failure does not actually exist.
Failures are a natural method for someone to move toward a better path.
What someone may perceive as failure is likely just a lesson they’ll learn on their road to success.

With this in mind,
failure is actually a means to an end rather than simply being the end.
Failure then means changing direction.

4. There is no guaranteed success
Nothing is guaranteed in life, including your success.

However, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t pursue your desire in life,
because when you do, you greatly increase your chances of success.

5. You’re not good enough, and so you can do better
When you fail, it means that you’re not good enough,
and it also means that you can do better.
So, switch your mindset and think of what you can learn and do better in the future.

6. The world can be nasty and unfair, so you must stand strong and build stronger characters
You need to be tough!

You need to level up, improve your skills, and perform better.
Sometimes you may not be receiving any return even after you have put in the extreme effort, but that’s how life works.

So stay strong.

7. You have to be flexible
If you fail, it means that you’re not changing fast enough.

You’re being inflexible to the changes.
What you need to do is to learn to adapt to the environment and always innovating your business, products, and even your life.

8. Success is not a one-hit-wonder
My friend, failure is there to remind us that:
success is not about making that ONE decision, taking that ONE opportunity, or doing that ONE thing.

Like Winston Churchill said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

9. Going through failure is about transforming yourself
Don’t get it wrong by thinking that success is a destination.

In fact, success is a journey of going through failures and transforming yourself.
You have to become the person that possesses the qualities and characters of success before you can become one.
And how do you do that?

By going through failures.

10. You’re still well and alive
When you failed,
lookup into the sky,
take a deep breath and tell yourself that you’re still well and alive.

You can now learn, improve, and do better because you have just learned something.
Success is not final and failure is not fatal.

It is the courage to continue that counts.

11. You are in control of your life through choices and decisions
When we fail in life,
it implies that we have made the wrong decisions previously.
And we can choose to make it right.

When failure becomes feedback to improving yourself, you’ll become unstoppable.
And your success will be certain.
Let me know what lessons you have learned from your failures.