On Thomas Edison's Birthday - this one mindset change can open the floodgates
Today (Feb. 11) is Thomas Edison's 167th birthday. He's one of my heroes, not really so much for all he invented in his busy life, but for his unbreakable optimism.
His story taught me one mindset change that really opened things up and led to long-term success:
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"Negative results [failures] are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't."
I think this is one of the characteristics that separates successful from unsuccessful people. It's how they look at their failures. Edison chose to use them as motivation. He was happy when something didn't work because he learned from it and was able to cross that possibility off his list.
The fact that he was so productive in his life is proof that having this mindset can lead to unbelievable things.
But it's easy to let a failure sap all of your energy and confidence. It takes work to be willing to try something, even if there's a real chance it'll flop. That's why it takes a real conscious effort to change your mindset and your perspective about your failures.
I work hard every day to try things, even if they fail, and then to refuse to allow those failures to get me down. I'm human. Humans fail. Learn from it and keep going. The successes will be all that much sweeter.
His story taught me one mindset change that really opened things up and led to long-term success:
- Embrace failure!
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"Negative results [failures] are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't."
I think this is one of the characteristics that separates successful from unsuccessful people. It's how they look at their failures. Edison chose to use them as motivation. He was happy when something didn't work because he learned from it and was able to cross that possibility off his list.
The fact that he was so productive in his life is proof that having this mindset can lead to unbelievable things.
But it's easy to let a failure sap all of your energy and confidence. It takes work to be willing to try something, even if there's a real chance it'll flop. That's why it takes a real conscious effort to change your mindset and your perspective about your failures.
I work hard every day to try things, even if they fail, and then to refuse to allow those failures to get me down. I'm human. Humans fail. Learn from it and keep going. The successes will be all that much sweeter.
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