Never Fail Again
Change your paradigm of what success is and achieve more
I was working at our local high school a few weeks ago. I was on Cafeteria duty when I saw a note handwritten on a blackboard in the corner of the room. The note was scrawled in chalk and the first line said,
“I never fail”
I thought that was a curious statement. How was that possible? so I read the second line:
“I either. . .”
I either what?
The third line had the answer.
“Win or Learn”
That statement opened a whole new paradigm for me. I don’t ever have to look at anything I do ever again as a failure. I never again have to see myself as a failure either. If I win and get what I want, of course, I win. That’s the easy part. However, if the results are not exactly what I was looking for, I still win if I learned something in the process. The secret to never failing is to learn from what didn’t go right.
What I read on the blackboard scrawled in chalk didn’t originate there. The idea was a practice that someone else had used over a hundred years ago.
It’s a Lesson from Edison