The Sooner You Will Learn From Your Mistakes, the Sooner You Will Achieve Success
By: Sylvain Saurel
Tags: Failure, Success, Life Lessons, Personal Development, Mistakes

The Sooner You Will Learn From Your Mistakes, the Sooner You Will Achieve Success

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Mistakes are part of life. They often lead to failures which are also part of life. Many people have a bad attitude towards mistakes or failures. They refuse to admit that it is a part of life and the path to success.

No one has ever achieved great things without first experiencing failure or making mistakes.

We are all only human. By definition, we are all imperfect. De facto, mistakes are an integral part of our lives. With experience, you must have understood all this. Most importantly, you have come to understand that to succeed, you must be resilient.

This means continuing to try one failure after another.

Perseverance is essential, but not enough

Perseverance is the basis for the success of great entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos. There is much to be learned from studying the journey of these visionary entrepreneurs who have been changing our world for years now.

However, many people are content to keep moving forward without making the more or less important adjustments that then lead to success. Being resilient and persistent is something essential, but it is obviously not enough.

If you try again in the same way as the previous time, you will fail repeatedly.

The same inputs will produce the same outcomes. So you have to evolve and adapt. To do this, there is no magic bullet. You simply have to learn from your mistakes and failures. I’m just abusing the language here because this is actually the most difficult thing to do in life.

You must accept your mistakes to learn and grow from them

You will first have to accept that you made a mistake or failed.

This is the first step without which nothing is possible. Many people fail to take this first step. This locks them into a downward spiral within their comfort zone. They will never be able to grow and move to the next level in life.

If you can accept your failures, you can then analyze why they happened.

This may take time, but you should not spend any more time on it than necessary. There is no need to beat yourself up. Acknowledge your mistakes, and decide on a plan of action to change some things. The road to success in life is really just a series of experiments.

By dint of adjustments, you will eventually find the right recipe.

If you don’t, life will call you to order. The lessons you need to learn will be repeated no matter what until the day you learn them.

By trying differently after each failure, you will reach success sooner or later

Finding the right recipe takes time. This time is different for each of us, which is why it is useless to compare yourself to others. Some people will find the right recipe after 100 tries, while others will go to 10,000 unsuccessful tries to achieve a huge success.

It is a game of patience that you will have to win as Thomas Edison did. His way of thinking about failures will motivate you to never give up:

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

At the end of the road, Thomas Edison finally succeeded in creating the incandescent lamp. If Thomas Edison had not sought to learn more after each of his failures, he would never have succeeded.

The sooner you learn from your mistakes, the sooner you will achieve success. This is the only guarantee you can have in life regarding success.

The good news is that along the way, Thomas Edison managed to have some major intermediate successes. He invented a whole bunch of other things when his main goal was to create the incandescent lamp.