Failing vs. Failure

Failing and failure are not the same thing. One of my mentors says for example nothing fails like success. How can this be possible. Well here are some distinctions between the two words in the form of an example:

Thomas Edison assisted in inventing a usable light bulb. It is a story in history that an observer was in the lab with Edison as he was working and there was an incredible explosion. The blast almost injured the two of them. His partner not knowing better shrugged it off as a failed attempt in the early stage of Edison's experiment. Edison walked over to his log and chalked it up a little differently. Edison thought differently, he did fail to create the light bulb, however he succeeded in creating and explosion, he noted it cause he may need to know how to create an explosion in the future. As he was writing on the log book this attempt his observer looked over Edison's shoulder and became furious. This was not Edison's first few attempts it was well over his 3,00th. They had been at risk and the foolish observer thought Edison the fool. The amazing thing is that nothing fails like success.

Edison was content to not judge himself, he was content to chalk his failed attempts up as a result. The fact is everything worth mastering is worth failing at first. In life what many of the upper 3% of the people know about becoming great is that it is worth it to be bad enough long enough until the right results are achieved and then repeating the action steps to become great, even if it is 3000+ attempts.

Failing is a natural part of becoming great. Failure is the end result of someone who walked away from failing before the results became favorable.

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info