Top 10 Lessons to Learn from Failure

by Mousumi

Posted: 14 years ago 43 replies

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

“When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.” – Mary Kay Ash

10 Lessons Learnt from Failure are:

1. Patience Pays

2. Humility is the Key

3. Pursue you Passion

4. Necessity of a proper planning

5. Faith keeps you moving

6. Learn to Retain your success

7. Be Creative

8. Be Strong

9. Bring value

10. Conquer Yourself

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mugwande 14 years ago

You can do all that when the dice is not landing on your side, but the most important is patience and persevering.
Thanks for that good post.
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AChuah 14 years ago

I thought the most important one was:

"Learn from your mistakes."
I mean, that's the whole point isn't it? =P
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- CYCLONE 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by AChuah
  
  I thought the most important one was:
  
  "Learn from your mistakes."
  I mean, that's the whole point isn't it? =P
  
  I vote for this one to be number 11 because it is very important...
  
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  kellyyarnsbro 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CYCLONE
  
  I vote for this one to be number 11 because it is very important...
  
  It will be the last one. It is after you tried all ten and still you fail.
  
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  Mousumi 13 years ago
  
  Well said
  
  Originally Posted by kellyyarnsbro
  
  It will be the last one. It is after you tried all ten and still you fail.
  
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- Amandasimmons 14 years ago
  
  #4 Proper Planning says it all
  
  Originally Posted by AChuah
  
  I thought the most important one was:
  
  "Learn from your mistakes."
  I mean, that's the whole point isn't it? =P
  
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- manualbookmarking 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by AChuah
  
  I thought the most important one was:
  
  "Learn from your mistakes."
  I mean, that's the whole point isn't it? =P
  
  This should be #1 point...
  
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Amandasimmons 14 years ago

It's a wonderful post Mousumi...I'm sure people will add some more points
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Gary Joseph 14 years ago

My favorite is "patience pays" such a true statement to apply in all areas of my life!!

Cheers!
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- Amandasimmons 14 years ago
  
  This is what I need..honestly, don't have much patience and it fails me on several fronts
  
  Originally Posted by Gary Joseph
  
  My favorite is "patience pays" such a true statement to apply in all areas of my life!!
  
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Jesse L 14 years ago

it is only failing if you give up, otherwise it is learning
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- @JohnVincent 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Jesse L
  
  it is only failing if you give up, otherwise it is learning
  
  "There is no failure, only feedback"
  
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hotunited 14 years ago

"When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure." - Mary Kay Ash

10 Lessons Learnt from Failure are:

1. Patience Pays

2. Humility is the Key

3. Pursue you Passion

4. Necessity of a proper planning

5. Faith keeps you moving

6. Learn to Retain your success

7. Be Creative

8. Be Strong

9. Bring value

10. Conquer Yourself[/quote]

Thanks for such a nice Post..........!!!
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@JohnVincent 14 years ago

Great lessons all of them.

So long as you have that 'get back on the horse' attitude that you view them through...

as long as you keep going you will get there.
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ricksalas 14 years ago

I like Pursue your Passion. It can really be powerful and get people to connect with you when you have the same passions as the they do. You can build a unique brand with passion.
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Michael Ten 14 years ago

Yes! For real. I think that I have infinite patience when it comes to eventually succeeding.
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- Amandasimmons 14 years ago
  
  Wish you all the very best
  There is a saying, "Patience Pays!"
  
  Originally Posted by Michael Ten
  
  Yes! For real. I think that I have infinite patience when it comes to eventually succeeding.
  
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teammate 14 years ago

Thanks for an excellent post and I agree that you need to learn from your mistakes.
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glavilla 14 years ago

Failure is the greatest experience!
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- Komsat 14 years ago
  
  What failure means to me is that I was looking at the map incorrectly, or I had the wrong one! Reading through your list sounds like your punishing yourself! I say that in the kindest of ways of course, it may speak to you well, but I'm a Special Operations soldier and if I second guessed my decisions on that list every time I failed I'd be in mental institute. Again, it may speak to you very well, just isn't for me! =)
  
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JeniferStarr 14 years ago

Great reminder that failure is a wonderful learning tool. It's only a bad thing if you don't keep going.
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jordianis 14 years ago

Nicely said I like all of them..
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- liswilliams 14 years ago
  
  Great post - it's part of life. If you fall down, just get up again!
  
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therenegadeleader

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Mousumi

10 Lessons Learnt from Failure are:

1. Patience Pays

2. Humility is the Key

3. Pursue you Passion

4. Necessity of a proper planning

5. Faith keeps you moving

6. Learn to Retain your success

7. Be Creative

8. Be Strong

9. Bring value

10. Conquer Yourself

Great points. We can always learn from each of our failure. That makes us grow.

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charmloverocks 14 years ago

many people maybe already knew these things but only few actually follow and do it. good luck.

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ju113n 14 years ago

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-- Thomas A. Edison
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asha91 14 years ago

Yes, we certainly wouldn't be who we are if we didn't fail first. that's why we started off as babies who had to fail numerous times before learning
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tjaysen70

14 years ago

You forgot the most important part of failure, Feedback. Because that's all failure is really. It's feedback as to what's not working, or what didn't work. Once you understand this and take your emotions out of it, you can then look at failure as feedback and learn to adjust, so that you get different feedback, which leads to success.

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Amandasimmons

13 years ago

Yes, Feedback is key to success. If no lesson learnt from failure, one is bound to make another failure.

Originally Posted by tjaysen70

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surferchris 13 years ago

Nice post! We must always get something out of failure. When we fail we learn to not repeat our past mistakes, but rather grow from it get a better grasp of the bigger picture.
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andywestfall 13 years ago

Patience is virtue. You have a nice post you have here.
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kellyyarnsbro 13 years ago

Nice one Mosoumi. We have to be strong for us to survive., so many competitors nowadays.
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esuresh 13 years ago

Yes easy to say, but very hard to make it work.
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garfield29 13 years ago

Being strong is what I definitely need right now.
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markmatthews 13 years ago

good lessons. thank you for sharing
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ashok thakur 13 years ago

Have vote to 10 . Thanks for useful information.
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kungz13 13 years ago

Well nothing can evade failures, i repeat them 5 - 10 or more times just to make sure. I really inspired with Thomas Alfa Edison who failed 10000 times until then he can finally bring light bulb to our room. Thanks ju113n you remind me of him. Cheers.

Dig here, dig another.
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NestZone 13 years ago

All my major success in life is as a result of the numerous failures I had.

when I see somebody talking of failure, I know is somebody who has never meet success in life.

Taking a right step at one point in life does not mean you are in the right direction.
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- Mousumi 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by NestZone
  
  when I see somebody talking of failure, I know is somebody who has never meet success in life.
  
  I completely disagree to what you just said above.
  
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DFTskillz 13 years ago

Easy to read and all but it all comes down to practice when you actually fail at something life changing...
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profilelinks 13 years ago

try, try; try again!!
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Gianni 13 years ago

Those are good lessons to learn from failure
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Coach Anna 13 years ago

Nice and simple. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful lesson.
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