Billionaire James Dyson on Failure

this should really go in the motivation portion of this forum, but nevertheless, good read. thanks for the post.

It just goes to show you it is never wrong to take action but sometimes wrong not to!

Failure should not be an option. We should never give up and always learn from our mistakes.

Failure does not exist. There are only quitters and winners. Quitters choose to fail by giving up. Winners never give up and always win.

Every failure teaches us how to do things better the next time. I would rather have a hundred failures and finally get it right, than to try to perfect something before I ever go through with it. You'll just sit there for years... You'll learn by doing something, but often times you won't do something by learning about it. Do first, get it right later.

Yes, if you do not make failure, you can't create a new thing.

"How you will not make a mistake when you create something that have never existed before?"

The more you make mistakes, the more you learn. The more you learn, the more you grow.

"Success is a bad teacher. Failure is a great teacher."- Robert Kiyosaki

I hope that I don't have to fail as many times as James but great post

This emphasizes the importance of firstly taking action but also measuring so that you can know what's working and what's not. Improve on what is working and brings results and eliminate the other activities

Dyson sucks.

Failed over 5,000 times?! You gotta be kidding me. Most people will give up trying after 5-10 times..or maybe less.

He certainly hits the nail on the head...look at any high achiever (business or otherwise) and they have two major factors responsible for driving them to their achievement...

1. Passion - they have an incredible (almost obsessive) passion for what they want to achieve (Bill Gates - A PC in every home, Steve Jobs to marry technology with art, etc...)

2. Altered risk perception. Every high achiever I have met (business, artist, musician, etc...) have altered their view of risk such that NOT pushing ahead is higher risk/higher pain than pushing ahead and experiencing setbacks. This is no doubt partly driven by their passion which elevates the pleasure of working toward your goal higher than the pain associated with any setback, but there is something else.

High achievers (inventors or otherwise) tend to be restless souls that have such fear and pain built up around NOT pushing forward that the experiment-fail-modify-experiment process is massively comfortable for them...it is, in fact, the ONLY process thye are comfortable with. Over time, this leads to higher levels of success from the old adage that you learn more from 1 failure than all of your successes combined.

This is also the reason that most people trying to start a business or become wealthy in their own ventures will fail - they do not yet (and may never) have either the passion or the altered sense of risk required to be a high achiever.

Jeff

For a moment there I thought you were talking about the creator of OptimizePress

Thomas Edison wasn't very intelligent but he tried thousands of things even when he was wrong but at the end he was successful. Tesla for example was much smarter then Edison and when he came to work for Edison he gave him an imposible task and Tesla did it, he was very smart. The point is that failure is part of success most of us are not as smart as Tesla we have to keep trying like Edison!

The key is to actually learn from your mistakes. Many people just move on when something has failed. Take the time to examine the failure and then move on.

Very inspiring! Thanks for the post!!

Excellent thread. What he says is true. I have got the same advice from a inventors autobiography too.

I have to agree to the people who said that this thread is awesome. I've read some blogs about failure, and they've inspired me to move forward instead of just sitting in one corner being sad about just one failure. Some businesses fail because they're afraid to fail. It's not something that people are supposed to be scared of; I'd rather think of it as something that could help us learn how to make things a lot better.

Dyson changed the way most the higher priced vacuums are built. Dyson's selling point is the no loss of suction and being bagless. Now most newer vacuums have no bag to empty and have great sustained suction power. The Dyson vacuum improved the vacuuming industry for the consumer. Thank you Mr. Dyson for improving the cleaning power of vacuums across the world. (From a mom of course).

This kind of psychology takes us humans to a whole new level.

Wonderful stuff, really powerful and just shows that no matter who you are, what background you have, how poor you were frowing up, it simply is all irrelevant once you have that unbreakable psychology at your disposal.

thank you so much for sharing that information WISE WARRIOR it has made my day!!!

I definitely agree with the message he's portraying. but how the hell can you make 5,127 different prototypes?

Still, great message none the less. The path to success is filled with failure, just use them as stepping stones and use the information/data from each failures constructively!

"I've always thought that schoolchildren should be marked by the number of failures they've had"

Wow! What an amazing way to look at it. The education system today, unfortunately, is all about suppressing creativity and glorifying conformity.

Imagine what humans would be capable of if the they were taught from childhood to be creative

Have not failed that much yet. If I failed over 5000 times, I would not live to see this day.

Dyson may be a genius but Oreck makes my favorite vacuums.