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Hey Warriors here's another one. Hoping to recieve more views then my other one.


Sincerely,
Jeremy


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So many times have I heard about people giving up there dreams and throwing it into the trash like it was nothing to them. Why? Because of one stupid mistake. I've seen people go to the heavens and back because they got a ticket for doing an improper stop sign. People do mistakes, how do you think penicillin was discovered, Alexander Flemming forgot to clean his workstation. When he came back he discovered fungus on his desk, and to his surprise Flemming noticed there was no bacteria building up around the fungus. I'm not saying you'll discover the next great thing by making mistakes, not at all. I'm just saying mistakes aren't such a bad thing.


I make mistakes all the time, actually all my life, but it made me who I am today. Any regrets growing up, sure, but it's only the type of regrets I would know about because you'll never see me doing the same mistake twice. I kind of base my life on the boxer mentality, if you fall pick yourself back up, if your bones can't take no more, just remember what your there for.


"Most people make a common mistake...by thinking of failure as the enemy of success... You've got to put failure to work for you... go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you'll find success... on the far side of failures." - Thomas Watson






Learn from your mistakes. Don't push yourself away from mistakes, never blame anyone else but yourself. Ask yourself what went wrong, what happened? What did I do wrong? This will enlighten your self awareness. Awareness might be painful at times, but it frees us from the illusion that empowers growth. Learning is what everyone seeks but what about those who know. Don't put yourself down for any mistake you make, positive thinking will help you grow into who you are now.
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  • Profile picture of the author elexmedia
    I make mistakes all the time, actually all my life, but it made me who I am today.
    I also learnt this principle from "This means war" movie: This Means War (2012) - IMDb

    Live this life like there's no mistake. Everything that happened to our life have reasons...
    Mistake will make our life better.
    Take mistake as a blessing in disguise
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  • Profile picture of the author abugah
    In a perfect world, successful people make more mistakes than the rest of the populace. In a game of football, there are always more attempts at goal than there are scored goals. I wonder why people think mistakes are bad in real life. Perhaps because of ignorance, poor conditioning or archaic beliefs.
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    • Profile picture of the author JWalsh32
      Originally Posted by abugah View Post

      In a perfect world, successful people make more mistakes than the rest of the populace. In a game of football, there are always more attempts at goal than there are scored goals. I wonder why people think mistakes are bad in real life. Perhaps because of ignorance, poor conditioning or archaic beliefs.
      As Theodore Roosevelt once said, "It is hard to fail, but it is worst to have never tried to succeed"
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  • Profile picture of the author isaacburks9z
    I have made so many mistakes throughout life and I will still make so many more. But with success comes failures. If your not failing your not trying hard enough.

    I wouldn't consider myself successful yet. Once I meet success I am going to have one hell of a story to tell. About my struggles to get their the sacrifices i had to make the relationships I had to tarnish.

    “I just spent all my time working. That’s why I made all this money so quickly, because I didn’t do anything else." Ravi Ghelot

    “Don’t let people beat your confidence away. Just go and do it." Tom Hartley
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesrich1
    Mistakes are gems of wisdom that will help you become a champion. I think this video is appropriate since you mentioned you having a boxer mentality. Great post!
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  • Profile picture of the author elexmedia
    In a perfect world, successful people make more mistakes than the rest of the populace. In a game of football, there are always more attempts at goal than there are scored goals. I wonder why people think mistakes are bad in real life. Perhaps because of ignorance, poor conditioning or archaic beliefs.
    “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”- Conrad Hilton

    Yes, the difference between successful person and unsuccessful person is how they are looking at the mistake.

    Successful people see mistake as just a step that they need to take.
    Unsuccessful people tend to see mistake as a dead-end.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ricky Tango
    Hey JWalsh ,
    Thanks for getting this thread going. I am a big fan of MMA and I've always been a resilient feather/lightweight when I used to train BJJ. Many times I trained with larger guys and you have to be smart and use great technique to be effective over brute strength (philosophy of many martial arts).

    Definitely the idea is to get back on your feet and persevere. I guess the obvious story is about Thomas Edison and how he found like 900 ways of not creating the light bulb was it? That is perseverance for sure!

    Regarding mistakes, yes they are fine to make, learn from then avoid. However, I also believe now in taking the path of wisdom, which is finding someone who has made more mistakes than me along a similar path of travel, and then consult with this person to avoid mistakes in the first place. Hope that I added a bit of value to the discussion.

    Jamesrich,
    thanks for posting that youtube clip from Rocky. Enjoyed it.

    Many blessings to my fellow warriors.

    Oh, and that reminds me of a movie called Way of the Peaceful Warrior based on the book by Dan Millman. It is the same concept of getting back up after being hospitalized and told he could never compete again, but applied to a gymnast.
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  • Profile picture of the author JWalsh32
    Hey Ricky,

    Thanks for your input. I also did do BJJ and also trained with guys bigger then me with just pure technique. My training partner was 6'5 and 350 pounds when I was 5'10 and 155 pounds. I used to spar against him in front of new members to the BJJ team so they would understand that strength is nothing compared to being relaxed and using your awareness/technique to overcome a big obstacle.

    Yes, The Way of the Peaceful is a excellent book, It doesn't necessarily apply only to gymnast. I've recommended it to people who where just having a hard time in life. Heck I read it when I was having a hard time.
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  • Profile picture of the author MorpheusMirror
    The one who wins is the one who keeps getting back up. How many times we have fallen in our quest to make it online sometimes forgetting every fall is a step closer to goal.
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  • Profile picture of the author hbteos234
    There is a GREAT story of Rocky that describes just this attitude. Its not the script of the movie itself, rather it is HOW the script came to be.

    Best told by Tony Robbins, he tells the story of Sylvester Stalone as his life was in the gutter, no money, no nothing, but he had one thing: an absolute Rocky-like resolve to never quit. In the end, Rocky came to life because of Sylvester's boxing mentality.

    Check out the video by Tony Robbins about rocky. Its all over the net. Truly an amazing story
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