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Yuemystra, Nurziyan Hanina, Nik Nur Izzaty

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Nur aina fathihah
Wan syarifah nadhirah

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Nurziyan Hanina, Yuemystra , Nik Nur Izzati.

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We all have goals and dreams in life, and when we are on our own, when we are planning our lives they seem feasible - ambitious perhaps, but we tell ourselves that with hard work we can achieve them.

The next day however, when we get into the real world and it is time to take action they seem a lot more difficult.

It is easy to sit at home and plan, and imagine yourself taking action, but when we get out into the real world there are many things which might hold us back.

Often these are just excuses we tell ourselves, to cushion ourselves from the reality that we just didn't take action.

The reasons vary - from worrying what people will think of us, to not knowing exactly what to do, or pretending that the circumstances are not exactly right... All of these reasons when you break them down usually come to a fear of failure.

We are a proud race, we don't like to admit defeat, or admit that we can't do something.

We often protect our ego's at all costs, and sometimes we trick ourselves to do this, subconsciously reasoning that if we don't try we don't fail, we will be successful as soon as we try tomorrow, or next time the circumstances are right... only tomorrow never comes, and the circumstances never quite fit. We move on to a different goal, and the pattern continues.
Break The Cycle!
If you keep doing the same things you will get the same results. To achieve something different we need to do something different, and this often involves getting out of our comfort zones and putting our pride on the line.

When you take the first steps in any pursuit - whether it is going for a job interview, volunteering to make a presentation often failure is inevitable. What really matters is how you perceive it - some people embrace failure - see it as a learning process and something they can learn from.

You need to frame it like this within your mind - to accept failure as inevitable and to actually embrace it. Failure is the first step on the path to success, and it is very rare that anyone who achieves massive success in any pursuit has had a clear path there, free from failure.
People Who Are Successful Always Failed At First!
On the way to success people who are industry leaders, inventors, entrepreneurs, they will have experienced failure on a massive scale. They will have encountered many obstacles and overcome them.

Failure

When your Best isn't just good enough

They don't worry about failure, in-fact they see it as a signpost to success. If they are failing then they are making progress - they learn how to do something successfully, by naturally learning all the different ways not to do it first.

This can be seen in all areas of life:

* In the entrepreneur who makes a loss in his first year of business but goes on to sell his business after 5 years for several million dollars.

* In the person who tries to learn the skill of public speaking - they go through many sessions and hours of sweating, shaking, and stuttering through their performances before it starts to come naturally to them.

* In the person who finally loses the weight they have carried around for years. They spend years trying different diets, learning what works for them and what doesn't and through persistence and trying again and again they find something that works really well for them.

* In the dancer who wants to dance on Broadway - they go to 100s of auditions, and in the end they get just one chance. The 99 other parts they went for are meaningless once they achieve their dream

- it is all just part of the process.

There is also the analogy of the "failure rocket": A rocket flying to the moon "fails" every few seconds - it is constantly just a millimetre off course, over the whole course of the journey this would mean it would miss the moon completely. However, the scientists constantly adjust the trajectory and put the rocket back on course. Eventually the rocket reaches the moon safely and the whole world sees this as a massive success.

You have to think the same way - to see your "failures" as feedback, not only as inevitable episodes on the path to success, but as beneficial lessons which you need to learn from in order to be successful.

Once you do this you lose the fear of failure and start taking positive steps towards your goals. Once you do this process once and achieve success at the end then it will become second nature to you - you will live your life by this rule and measure your success by the failure you have to go through.

Remember, if it was easy, and there was no failure required then everyone would be doing it and therefore the reward wouldn't be that great.

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We all have goals and dreams in life, and when we are on our own, when we are planning our lives they seem feasible - ambitious perhaps, but we tell ourselves that with hard work we can achieve them.

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If you're like most people, you probably have a bad relationship with failure. You see it as an ending, as proof that your plan didn't succeed or your ideas weren't good enough. The truth is, failure happens to everyone. The only thing that separates people who succeed from those who don't is a proper understanding of the power of failure. Success requires that you learn from mistakes and missteps along the way rather than falling into despair and giving up.

Pay attention to the information here, especially if you're at a place where failure isn't your friend, and you will find that opportunity lies in every defeat. Here are 3 reasons why failure is the key to success.

1. Failure is a Function of Trying

The best way to measure your progress at something is the number of setbacks and "failures" you've had. If you haven't failed yet, chances are you aren't trying very hard. Failure is the blacksmith's hammer that tempers the sword of success. If you want to get really good at something, you have to fail at least a few times.

If you look at all the great men and women throughout history, you'll notice that they had one main thing in common. They failed, and they failed often. Think of Thomas Edison. How many times did he fail to find the right filament for his light bulb? There are various estimates, but they all range in the ballpark of a whole heck of a lot. Henry Ford knew of failure intimately. So much so that he is quoted for saying the following: "Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently."

Clearly, failure represents opportunity and growth, not deficit and loss.

2. Success Lies in Seeing Failure as a Tool

Just as all the greats have something in common, so too do the true "failures" of life: their inability to use failure as a tool. When you feel that sinking, desperate sensation known as failure and you take it to heart, you diminish yourself. You give your power away to an external event. Success is about learning how to recognize why you failed, and how you're going to compensate for it.

I find it helpful to ask myself the following questions upon failures, big and small.

What brought about the failure?

How much of it is in my realm of influence?

How can I use my influence to turn failure into success?

What steps do I need to go through to try again?

What can I do every day to ensure that my next try is done more intelligently?

You may want to get out a piece of paper and go through that list. Be completely open and honest as you ask yourself each question. Analyze your answers carefully and implement them - don't procrastinate! Remember, failure is an opportunity, not a burden. Be grateful for a chance to grow.

3. Failure Builds Character

If you look at the events leading up to any significant victory, you'll often discover failure as the biggest motivator. Just as the Colorado River created the Grand Canyon over a period of millions of years, success can also come in small chunks, and they're part of any winning strategy. On the other hand, waiting years upon years for something to happen isn't effective when you can take action now.

So what do you need to consistently test yourself and learn from failed attempts? Character.

Success occurs in leaps and bounds for people who are ready for it. To genuinely create value, day in and day out, requires determination, purpose, and most of all, that subtle yet all-important trait known as character. Failure is a far better character builder than any affirmation or fleeting goal. While each success will propel you by a small amount, failure will forge your career - and your personality - like nothing else will. It's the difference between a natural lake being formed over thousands of years and a man-made lake coming into fruition in under a year.

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Success takes willpower, intelligence, determination, and grit. But more than anything else, it requires failure. Use this is an opportunity to reassess your relationship to the true key to success that so many people fear.

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Note: This is a guest post from Fred Tracy of FredTracy.com If you're like most people, you probably have a bad relationship with failure. You see it as an ending, as proof that your plan didn't succeed or your ideas weren't good enough. The truth is, failure happens to everyone.

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If we like the most of people, we generally have a bad and intense relationship with failure. we can see it as an ending, as proof that our plan did not succeed or our ideas were not good enough. The truth is, failure happens to everyone.

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Failure is the first step to success-Danial

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The majority of people always revere success, and abhor failure (because they consider it to be completely opposite of success).

But, in truth, failure is an integral part of success because it certainly contributes to the learning process.

You cannot enrich your knowledge, improve your expertise, strengthen your competence, or perfect your technique without failing and learning from the experience. If you avoid failure, you may also avoid success.

Life consists of a series of large and small failures usually rounded with success. Life is a process of continuous learning through your mistakes, it is dynamic process in which you can't get it right until you get it wrong in the beginning. This means that failure is actually a delay, a detour on the road to success.

Every time you fail at something take a positive approach, because failure is not your enemy, but your friend. This will help you focus on the next try, because with every failure you're closer to success. If you succeed in the end, it doesn't matter if you fail 99 times. You'll be remembered for your success, for that last try that brought you the success were striving for. In fact, a lot of the greatest successes that people remember and celebrate today came after failure.

Persistence, dedication and hard work are some of the key qualities of people who achieve their goals. They don't let their failures stop them. Instead, they use their failures to learn and improve their personal skills and strengths. Here are 4 reasons why failure is the first step to success:

Failure Is the Road to Success

Failure is the perfect catalyst for success. It gives you the right perspective of success, and brings you closer to it by pushing you to work harder and get outside your comfort zone. It helps you realize the mistakes you make in your approach, and make the appropriate change so that you can continue smarter and stronger.

Instead of complaining about your mistakes, you should learn from them and try to become better. So, it is very important for you to realize that failure is not a definition of your abilities, but it is the road to success.

You can change your perspective by changing the way you think and say things that are on your mind. For example:

"What can I do better?" instead "What did I do wrong?"

"How can I improve myself?" instead "Why am I not good enough?"

"Who can I help get better so that we are better as a team?" instead "Why is that other person failing us?"

Failure Teaches Perseverance and Endurance

It is much easier to quit chasing your dreams after failing. However, if you are a person who wants to succeed, you have to understand that failure is not tragic at all. In fact, you should treat failure as a teacher and not undertaker. You shouldn't give up on your dreams just because things didn't work out the first time.

If you're determined and decisive, you'll realize that all your efforts are not just wasting time. When you fail, you should immediately look for a different approach and continue working even harder and with more enthusiasm. This teaches perseverance and endurance, as it helps you to remember how important your goal is, and why you should never give up. If you want to be a successful person, you won't quit when things get tough, instead you'll stick to your goal until you succeed.

Successful People Are Not Afraid to Fail

Successful people take action as soon as possible without being afraid of failure. They are actually excited about experimenting and getting involved into something that could bring results.

Trying over and over again is the secret that successful people apply in their lives every day. They take actions even when they know it won't bring them perfect results. They fail forward by learning from their mistakes, experimenting, practicing and trying new approaches. This attitude makes them even more successful.

Successful People Use Failures to Succeed

Failure is a stepping stone on the way to success. Successful people analyze their failures and learn from them in order to improve themselves. Don't get too emotional, forget about all the pain you felt when you failed for the first time. Instead, focus on your next move that will lead you on the right way to success.

To succeed, it is very important to be flexible, and to adapt a different attitude towards failure. You should take things under your control and don't let failure lead your life. This is the best, and actually the only way to achieve great things in life. Always remember your dreams, never give up on them, and move on with your head held high.

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The majority of people always revere success, and abhor failure (because they consider it to be completely opposite of success). But, in truth, failure is an integral part of success because it certainly contributes to the learning process. You cannot enrich your knowledge, improve your expertise, strengthen your competence, or perfect your technique without failing and learning from the experience.

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Failure is such a negative word that it seems strange to suggest that it can be a good thing. How many times have you looked back on your life, thought of mistakes you've made, and kicked yourself over them? I know I sure have. I have had many failures in my life. I have lost a job; I have mismanaged my money; and I have had trouble in relationships. But life goes on as it should.

You see many people allow failure to hold them back, when in reality failure can be a good thing! Fear of failure prevents many people from following their dreams or having a go at something new. Fear of failing is failure in itself because it holds back so many would-be success stories. I often remember what Zig Ziglar once said, " Failure is an event, not a person. " How profound is that?!

History has shown that the most successful exploits frequently came on the back of failure. Just think of Winston Churchill. He failed the sixth grade and was defeated in every single election for public office until he became Prime Minister at the young age of 62. Or, how about Albert Einstein. He did not speak until he was four years old, and couldn't read until he was seven. His parents thought he was "sub-normal." He was expelled from school and his teachers described him as "mentally slow, unsociable and adrip forever in foolish dreams." You see where I am going with this. Failure is actually on our side. Failing allows us to grow, learn, and find new opportunities. Here is what I mean:

Failure means you have courage

Even though you didn't get the results you wanted, at least you were trying to do something. So many people let the fear of failure prevent them from reaching for their dreams. So don't be worried about a failure - at least you had the courage to have a go. Courage is not the absence of fear; it is feeling the fear and taking action anyway. When you have a go, despite the possibility of failure, you show that you have great courage.

Failure makes you stronger

When you don't get the result you want, you can become more determined to succeed. At first you probably feel discouraged, frustrated or upset but these feelings don't last forever. You then get a burst of determination and strength of purpose to try again. Failure makes you more focused on a successful outcome next time.

Failure helps you learn

It was Thomas Edison who said that he hadn't failed in his hundreds of attempts to create the light bulb. His answer when questioned about his 'failures' was that he hadn't failed, he had just found hundreds of ways that it didn't work. This is the mentality of geniuses and successful people. Failure to get the results you wanted is not a negative thing; it is simply an opportunity to try a different method. It is also the opportunity to start again.

Failure helps you grow

When your efforts don't work out, you have to reach deep inside to find the strength to try again. To solve the problem and make sure you get the desired result, you need to extend yourself and so you grow. You need to stretch and possibly move outside your comfort zone. After experiencing failure, you will never be the same as you were before you tried. You don't know how far you can go until you have tried and failed.

Failure creates new opportunities

Many people believe that everything happens for a reason, we just don't know what it is at the time. Failures often bring unforeseen opportunities that would not have been available without the failure in the first place. You often need to close one door so that another door of opportunity can be opened for you. Failure is a way of one door closing. Failure is seldom the end; it is often a bright beginning.

Failure provides answers

If you don't try and fail, you will never know if your idea or method is going to work. You spend time worrying that you don't have the answer; you wonder whether it would have worked. The pain of regret is far worse than the pain of failure. When you fail, you can start again; with regret, you will never know.

Failure gives you the best chance of success

Research out of Stanford University has shown that those who are the top of their field are the ones who have failed the most. Having to persevere to learn a new skill gives you the advantage over someone who gets it right first time. Learning many ways how not to do it gives you the edge over the person who hasn't have that experience.

Don't view failure as bad luck, instead look at each attempt to reach your goals as a triumph. There's always something to learn, ways to grow, different viewpoints to see, and new opportunities waiting just around the corner. So get in and have a go. Fail fast and recover quickly to try again. Use every failure as an opportunity to learn and to grow as a person. Remember that every failure is like one step on the stairway to success. Above all else, remember this: If you never fail, you will never succeed.
So, have you failed in your life at something? What have you learned from it? If you don't mind sharing, please tell me your failure story? I would love to hear it.

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Failure is such a negative word that it seems strange to suggest that it can be a good thing. How many times have you looked back on your life, thought of mistakes you've made, and kicked yourself over them? I know I sure have. I have had many failures in my life.

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If we like the most of people, we generally have a bad and intense relationship with failure. we can see it as an ending, as proof that our plan did not succeed or our ideas were not good enough. The truth is, failure happens to everyone.

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The sweetest victory is the one that's most difficult. The one that requires you to reach down deep inside, to fight with everything you've got, to be willing to leave everything out there on the battlefield-without knowing, until that do-or-die moment, if your heroic effort will be enough. Society doesn't reward defeat, and you won't find many failures documented in history books.

The exceptions are those failures that become steppingstones to later success. Such is the case with Thomas Edison, whose most memorable invention was the light bulb, which purportedly took him 1,000 tries before he developed a successful prototype. "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" a reporter asked. "I didn't fail 1,000 times," Edison responded. "The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."

Unlike Edison, many of us avoid the prospect of failure. In fact, we're so focused on not failing that we don't aim for success, settling instead for a life of mediocrity. When we do make missteps, we gloss over them, selectively editing out the miscalculations or mistakes in our life's résumé. "Failure is not an option," NASA flight controller Jerry C. Bostick reportedly stated during the mission to bring the damaged Apollo 13 back to Earth, and that phrase has been etched into the collective memory ever since. To many in our success-driven society, failure isn't just considered a non-option-it's deemed a deficiency, says Kathryn Schulz, author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. "Of all the things we are wrong about, this idea of error might well top the list," Schulz says. "It is our meta-mistake: We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition."

Related: 10 Things Successful People Never Do Again

Failure Is Life's Greatest Teacher

When we take a closer look at the great thinkers throughout history, a willingness to take on failure isn't a new or extraordinary thought at all. From the likes of Augustine, Darwin and Freud to the business mavericks and sports legends of today, failure is as powerful a tool as any in reaching great success. "Failure and defeat are life's greatest teachers [but] sadly, most people, and particularly conservative corporate cultures, don't want to go there," says Ralph Heath, managing partner of Synergy Leadership Group and author of Celebrating Failure: The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes and Thinking Big. "Instead they choose to play it safe, to fly below the radar, repeating the same safe choices over and over again. They operate under the belief that if they make no waves, they attract no attention; no one will yell at them for failing because they generally never attempt anything great at which they could possibly fail (or succeed)."

However, in today's post-recession economy, some employers are no longer shying away from failure-they're embracing it. According to a recent article in BusinessWeek, many companies are deliberately seeking out those with track records reflecting both failure and success, believing that those who have been in the trenches, survived battle and come out on the other side have irreplaceable experience and perseverance.

"The quickest road to success is to possess an attitude toward failure of 'no fear.' "

They're veterans of failure. The prevailing school of thought in progressive companies-such as Intuit, General Electric, Corning and Virgin Atlantic-is that great success depends on great risk, and failure is simply a common byproduct. Executives of such organizations don't mourn their mistakes but instead parlay them into future gains. "The quickest road to success is to possess an attitude toward failure of 'no fear,' " says Heath. "To do their work well, to be successful and to keep their companies competitive, leaders and workers on the front lines need to stick their necks out a mile every day.

They have to deliver risky, edgy, breakthrough ideas, plans, presentations, advice, technology, products, leadership, bills and more. And they have to deliver all this fearlessly-without any fear whatsoever of failure, rejection or punishment."

Reaching Your Potential

The same holds true for personal quests, whether in overcoming some specific challenge or reaching your full potential in all aspects of life. To achieve your personal best, to reach unparalleled heights, to make the impossible possible, you can't fear failure, you must think big, and you have to push yourself. When we think of people with this mindset, we imagine the daredevils, the pioneers, the inventors, the explorers: They embrace failure as a necessary step to unprecedented success. But you don't have to walk a tightrope, climb Mount Everest or cure polio to employ this mindset in your own life.

When the rewards of success are great, embracing possible failure is key to taking on a variety of challenges, whether you're reinventing yourself by starting a new business or allowing yourself to trust another person to build a deeper relationship. "To achieve any worthy goal, you must take risks," says writer and speaker John C. Maxwell. In his book Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success, he points to the example of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who set several records and achieved many firsts in her lifetime, including being the first female pilot to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean.

Although her final flight proved fateful, Maxwell believes she knew the risk-and that the potential reward was worth it. "[Earhart's] advice when it came to risk was simple and direct: 'Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.' " Of course, the risks you take should be calculated; you shouldn't fly blindly into the night and simply hope for the best. Achieving the goal or at least waging a heroic effort requires preparation, practice and some awareness of your skills and talents.

Easing Into a Fearless Mindset

"One of the biggest secrets to success is operating inside your strength zone but outside of your comfort zone."

" One of the biggest secrets to success is operating inside your strength zone but outside of your comfort zone," Heath says. Although you might fail incredibly, you might succeed incredibly-and that's why incredible risk and courage are requisite. Either way, you'll learn more than ever about your strengths, talents and resolve, and you'll strengthen your will for the next challenge. If this sounds like dangerous territory, it can be. But there are ways to ease into this fearless mindset.
Related: 21 Quotes About Failing Fearlessly
Maintain a Positive Attitude

The first is to consciouslya mintain a positive attitude so that, no matter what you encounter, you'll be able to see the lessons of the experience and continue to push forward. "It's true that not everyone is positive by nature," says Maxwell, who cites his father as someone who would describe himself as a negative person by nature. "Here's how my dad changed his attitude. First he made a choice: He continually chooses to have a positive attitude.

Reading and Listening to Motivational Material

Second, he's continually reading and listening to materials that bolster that attitude. For example, he's read The Power of Positive Thinking many times. I didn't get it at first, so once I asked him why. His response: 'Son, I need to keep filling the tank so I can stay positive.' " Heath recommends studying the failures and subsequent reactions of successful people and, within a business context, repeating such histories for others. "Reward them and applaud their efforts in front of the entire organization so everyone understands it is OK to fail.
Editor's note: This post was originally published in September 2010 and has been updated for freshness, accuracy and comprehensiveness.
So employees say to themselves, 'I see that Bill, the vice president of widgets, who the president adores, failed, and he is not only back at work, but he is driving a hot new sports car. I can fail and come to work the next day. Bill is proof of it.' " Finally, Heath stays motivated by the thought that, "if I become complacent and don't take risks, someone will notice what I am doing and improve upon my efforts over time, and put me out of work. You've got to keep finding better ways to run your life, or someone will take what you've accomplished, improve upon it, and be very pleased with the results. Keep moving forward or die."

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One of the most important senses most humans posses is pain. Pain allows us to learn very quickly from our mistakes. Picking up a sharp object, falling over, bumping into things, dropping something on your foot; the pain involved quickly allows children to learn not to do these things.

Without the pain, children would not learn through their failures. Without this failure, they would not learn how to succeed.

Moving into adulthood and professional life, failure is very often viewed as a negative thing. If a business launches a new product, tries a new marketing initiative, tries a new user experience on their website, the initiative will almost always have KPIs that are focused on elements such as a growth in sales, a growth in profit or an increase in orders.

This is perfectly understandable and natural for most businesses. Stakeholders need to measure the success and ROI of any initiative.

If at first you don't succeed

While success should certainly be celebrated, what can make a company stand out is not just how it how it deals with success but how it deals with failure. As people and businesses, we are all going to fail sometimes. No person or company is successful at everything, and failure can teach us a great deal.

Innovation most often involves taking a risk; sometimes big, sometimes small. Any risk has a chance of failure, so it stands to reason that a fear of failure inhibits risk taking which can inhibit innovation.

I have run Envoy for over 20 years and, in that time, we have had both successes and failures (luckily more of former and less of the latter). We have run hundreds of projects and each one has had its own challenges, successes and failures. The important thing is to understand the failures and learn from them.

I have certainly found that the hardest and most important lessons have always come from our failures and have helped us to ultimately become successful.

If you look at the history of successful entrepreneurs, you will often see that they had multiple failures before they then became successful. Does anyone remember the Apple Newton? That was a spectacular failure, but I would question whether we would have iPhones and iPads now had Apple not launched the Newton and learned why it failed.How about the Apple Lisa? This was a massive failure for the company and ultimately cost Steve Jobs his job. Would we now have the Apple Mac, had they not learnt from the failure of the Lisa?

James Dyson developed thousands of prototypes of his vacuum cleaner, learning from each one, before he came up with a version that worked and propelled him to be one the most successful entrepreneurs in the world.

Learning from failure is important in all aspects of life and business. A/B or multivariate testing is fairly standard for most online retailers where different layouts, messages, calls to action and functions are tested against one another to see which achieves the best result.

While it is natural to focus on those tests that achieved the best result, those that achieved the worst are equally, or sometimes more, important. Maybe a test that changes the colour of checkout button to blue increased conversion rate by 0.1% but changing it to red decreased it by 0.5%. You could argue that the test that failed is actually the most valuable as it highlights the importance of the colour of that button. Get it wrong and you can dramatically reduce your conversion rate.

Amazon is famous for focusing on evidence-based user experience. Any changes to the user experience of their platform is thoroughly tested and only made available to everyone once the evidence shows the correct results. They never deploy changes just based on an opinion of one or a few people.

It is important to take this approach when implementing any design or change to user experience. I have seen so many examples in the past where a change to UX is based on the opinion of one UX designer or the just internal e-commerce team. This can often be a mistake. It is important to thoroughly test changes to UX either through A/B testing or, for larger changes, user prototype testing.

User prototype testing is where a clickable prototype is tested with a group of users. This can be an incredibly valuable exercise to undertake and you will often find that an area of UX or functionality that seems to be clear to the designers completely confuses real users.

We had a real example of this during a recent project. We developed an online configurator for a product that is quite complex to buy. We were quite proud of this tool and both the client and the designers felt that the tool was very easy and intuitive to use but when the clickable prototype was put in front of users who do not know the product very well, it very quickly became clear that users got lost and found the tool hard to use. This failure was an incredibly valuable lesson and allowed us to go back and redesign the tool and retest it to much better success.

Some of the biggest and most successful companies in the world have made a point of celebrating failures that have come about through appropriate risk taking and innovation as well as their successes.

Tata famously has a 'Dare to Try' award which is awarded to those failures that came through innovation and gave the company some valuable lessons. Proctor and Gamble have a 'Heroic Failure' award that honours employees or teams who gained the most insight from a failure. Facebook has grown through constant experimentation and risk taking.

What is common among these initiatives is that they encourage innovation and risk taking and accept that failures can offer very valuable lessons that then helps the organisation go on to succeed.

Of course, if a company is constantly failing and does not turn those failures into success, it is not going to last all that long, but a company that is afraid of failure and does not learn from it is rarely going to be a success.

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One of the most important senses most humans posses is pain. Pain allows us to learn very quickly from our mistakes. Picking up a sharp object, falling over, bumping into things, dropping something on your foot; the pain involved quickly allows children to learn not to do these things.

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We all have goals and dreams in life, and when we are on our own, when we are planning our lives they seem feasible - ambitious perhaps, but we tell ourselves that with hard work we can achieve them.

The next day however, when we get into the real world and it is time to take action they seem a lot more difficult.

It is easy to sit at home and plan, and imagine yourself taking action, but when we get out into the real world there are many things which might hold us back.

Often these are just excuses we tell ourselves, to cushion ourselves from the reality that we just didn't take action.

The reasons vary - from worrying what people will think of us, to not knowing exactly what to do, or pretending that the circumstances are not exactly right... All of these reasons when you break them down usually come to a fear of failure.

We are a proud race, we don't like to admit defeat, or admit that we can't do something.

We often protect our ego's at all costs, and sometimes we trick ourselves to do this, subconsciously reasoning that if we don't try we don't fail, we will be successful as soon as we try tomorrow, or next time the circumstances are right... only tomorrow never comes, and the circumstances never quite fit. We move on to a different goal, and the pattern continues.
Break The Cycle!
If you keep doing the same things you will get the same results. To achieve something different we need to do something different, and this often involves getting out of our comfort zones and putting our pride on the line.

When you take the first steps in any pursuit - whether it is going for a job interview, volunteering to make a presentation often failure is inevitable. What really matters is how you perceive it - some people embrace failure - see it as a learning process and something they can learn from.

You need to frame it like this within your mind - to accept failure as inevitable and to actually embrace it. Failure is the first step on the path to success, and it is very rare that anyone who achieves massive success in any pursuit has had a clear path there, free from failure.
People Who Are Successful Always Failed At First!
On the way to success people who are industry leaders, inventors, entrepreneurs, they will have experienced failure on a massive scale. They will have encountered many obstacles and overcome them.

Failure

When your Best isn't just good enough

They don't worry about failure, in-fact they see it as a signpost to success. If they are failing then they are making progress - they learn how to do something successfully, by naturally learning all the different ways not to do it first.

This can be seen in all areas of life:

* In the entrepreneur who makes a loss in his first year of business but goes on to sell his business after 5 years for several million dollars.

* In the person who tries to learn the skill of public speaking - they go through many sessions and hours of sweating, shaking, and stuttering through their performances before it starts to come naturally to them.

* In the person who finally loses the weight they have carried around for years. They spend years trying different diets, learning what works for them and what doesn't and through persistence and trying again and again they find something that works really well for them.

* In the dancer who wants to dance on Broadway - they go to 100s of auditions, and in the end they get just one chance. The 99 other parts they went for are meaningless once they achieve their dream

- it is all just part of the process.

There is also the analogy of the "failure rocket": A rocket flying to the moon "fails" every few seconds - it is constantly just a millimetre off course, over the whole course of the journey this would mean it would miss the moon completely. However, the scientists constantly adjust the trajectory and put the rocket back on course. Eventually the rocket reaches the moon safely and the whole world sees this as a massive success.

You have to think the same way - to see your "failures" as feedback, not only as inevitable episodes on the path to success, but as beneficial lessons which you need to learn from in order to be successful.

Once you do this you lose the fear of failure and start taking positive steps towards your goals. Once you do this process once and achieve success at the end then it will become second nature to you - you will live your life by this rule and measure your success by the failure you have to go through.

Remember, if it was easy, and there was no failure required then everyone would be doing it and therefore the reward wouldn't be that great.

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Failure. It's a word that scares most of us out of our wits. It's an inconceivable word that many are hesitant to experience. To many, failure is not an option.

But, is a fear of failure really healthy? Is failure truly a sign of regression? Is trying and failing worse than not trying at all?

By some societal standards, the answer to those questions is 'yes'. We've become so set on the notion that failure is an unnecessary evil.

We believe that failure is something that consumes us and once it gets us, it doesn't let go. We believe that failure is embarrassing and makes us less of an individual.

But, most wrongfully, we believe failure is just that- failure to overcome. We don't see failure for what it truly is- the first steps to success.

Failure Shouldn't Limit Us

We're afraid of what our family and friends will think. We don't think our bosses would approve. We're terrified of letting the ones around us down.

These are all excuses we give ourselves to keep us from making mistakes. We only remind ourselves of what could go wrong. Instead, we need to consider what could go right.

In many workplace cultures, we feel restrained from looking outside of the box. But, where does staying complacent get us? In the same exact spot.

When we take chances, we may not get where we had hoped to go. But, at least we moved somewhere.

Many will argue that this is better than taking the chance to fall backward. But, is it true?

It's absolutely not better to stay in the same place. When we're too afraid of moving anywhere, we limit ourselves in how we can succeed.

We're not thinking in innovative terms. We're not thinking of the future. We're not thinking we can better ourselves.

Complacency is the true failure. When we become so limited in how we live and move and act, that's when we have failed. But, if we're still trying, still making mistakes even, we're on the steps to success.

Taking Personal Steps to Success

Not only should you feel inspired to take risks at your job or in school, but also personally. Your life is an ongoing cycle of challenges and adversaries.

What shapes you is how you let those antagonists effect you. If you run and hide from them, they have won. You have let the fear of failure get to you.

But, when you face these guys head on, you're starting to get somewhere. Reaching your full potential only comes from looking beyond what went wrong.

Look at what went wrong and move on from it. Embrace failure as a necessary step that is pushing you into the right direction.

Any worthy goal will come with its own set of risks. That holds true from making a career change to starting a new relationship.

But, isn't the potential reward quite sweet? Is it worth letting your dreams fall by the wayside to avoid these risks that are bound to happen?

Take Amelia Earhart for example. Earhart was the first female pilot to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.

She clearly knew the risks were quite deep. But, when asked why, she simply answered, "Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying."

What we should take away from this is to know the weight of our goals. Know the power that they hold over us and whether or not it'll hurt us to avoid achievement.

If it would affect us? Then, it's a risk worth taking.

We Learn from Failure

Take another walk down history lane. You'll notice that more of the biggest contributors to society also made quite a few failures.

Let's look at the father of electricity, Mr. Thomas Edison. We know he's the reason behind our modern light sources.

This shouldn't come as a shock to you, but Edison didn't come up with the lightbulb overnight. He went through trial and error. And more trial and error. And more trial and error.

In fact, he admitted that it took him over 1,000 tries to perfect what we now know as his masterpiece. He was knocked down 1,000 times and still got back up. But, why?

Because he learned from what went wrong each time. He had the mindset that each wrongful error put him one step closer to cracking the code.

In an interview, Edison had been asked what it felt like to fail over 1,000 times. He responded, "I didn't fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."

Shift in Attitude

You may be thinking, "Well, great, that mindset worked for Edison. But, I'm not that positive."

It's not easy. It usually doesn't come naturally. But, a positive attitude is a true make-it or break-it factor when handling failure.

Whether you fail or succeed, there is something to be positive about. Even in instances where you fail, you have taken steps to success in some fashion.

You've learned what didn't work. You've learned about your strengths and weaknesses and your ability to form resolutions.

Ascending into this mindset can be tricky for some. So, for those, it's important to always be conscious of your negative feelings.

Be conscious of how it makes you feel and how it limits you. Be conscious to how you behave and react when it has overcome you. Be conscious of what you'd do otherwise.

Use this as fuel to always practice a positive attitude. Look for the light in situations that feel grim. Again, go back to what you've learned and what you'll do differently next time.

Then, go do it. Don't be afraid or hold back. Make the necessary adjustments. Do it with the mindset that no matter what happens, you've already succeeded.

Final Thoughts

If failure wasn't one of the steps to success, then we would all avoid it. Everyone would continue to live in a bubble. We would never experience "the next big thing".

Instead, we live in a society that is constantly pushing the envelope. We're surrounded by determined, risk-taking individuals. You can be that person, too.

You just have to believe in it.

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Failure. It's a word that scares most of us out of our wits. It's an inconceivable word that many are hesitant to experience. To many, failure is not an option. But, is a fear of failure really healthy? Is failure truly a sign of regression? Is trying and failing worse than not trying at all?

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Thomas A. Edison, who failed a thousand times before inventing electric bulb. A reporter in a press conference asked- "Mr. Edision you have failed 10,000 ways!" what would you like to say?

Thomas A. Edison replied- "I know 10,000 ways how not to fail. What do you know???"

There are many such stories. For those who become greats had 95% failures in their life.

Well, if you have desire to perform and if you persist till succeed then failure would ignite you and make you even stronger! Your critics would become your strength. And you will convert all those stones that was thrown at you into a milestone.
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Answer (1 of 3): It depends upon the people. Only we people make it as a success or a failure. Although, I personally feel that failure is indeed a first step of success. It teaches you more than just winning. e.g., Thomas A. Edison, who failed a thousand times before inventing electric bulb.

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"Failure is the first step towards success" is one of the most used, quoted and publicized quotes and often told to many of us in many different stages of life ,but it can be difficult to follow its mantra. Sometimes we want all the "success" but don't want to experience the hard work, pain and in many cases failure. Almost everything in life requires to learn or try something that you never have done before. That's why mistakes, mishaps and failure often times happens when we decide to go after our goals and dreams. This relates to anything in life whether you are trying to better your life by reading more, starting a new workout routine or even starting a business. Needless to say to have success in anything we have to keep in mind that we may (will) fail sometimes.
What is Failure?
Trial and error are usually the best way to find out what works and what doesn't work. It is the means of solving life's problems in a sense. Yet many people are afraid to undertake the trial because they're too fearful of experiencing the mistake. They make the mishap of believing that all errors are wrong and harmful, when most of the time they are both helpful and necessary. Error provides the feedback that points the way to success. Only error pushes people to put together a new and better trial, leading through yet more errors and trials until they can ultimately find a viable and creative solution. To meet with an error is not to fail, but to take one more step on the path to final success. No errors means no successes either.
What Can We Learn From Failure
The only method we can learn to rise from failure is when we have been through it. When we know what we did wrong in the first place, when we have tried every known way that's exactly when it will dawn on us the right way to get up. Success depends on us if we have fallen time after time, it's time to build a different strategy for getting up then try again. Most people can't succeed because they don't want to get up after they have failed. May people have a serious misconception when it comes to "failure" because they put negative labels on people they deem to have failed? It's important to understand that any time we fail at something, whether it's minor or major you have to believe we are one step closer to success.
Final Thoughts
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. So just go ahead and don't let these meaningful falls get on your nerves! Adopt the "Never Give Up" mentality even through this may sound cliché it can really change your mindset towards failure. Have you ever had failure in your life? How did you it? Comment Below & if you liked this post please comment!

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About Jay Colby

Some would categorize me as an entrepreneur, life coach, son, friend and all of the above. I'm just another person trying to find my way in this world. Until recently, I was unsure what my path in this life would consist of. Like many others I was between I know what I want to do but not sure if that's what I'm supposed to do. I am currently finishing my degree in something that has nothing to do with becoming a writer or entrepreneur so automatically it qualifies me to become one right! Follow me as I go through this journey called life to impact and encourage one person at a time.

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By Rabia Habib Raja on May 08, 2013

"Madam ji, this is for you. We cannot pay the fees but we can pay you like this." A doe-eyed little girl carrying a bucket of warm milk stood on my door step. That girl not only opened the door to my room but also my eyes to the reality that my project, a language training center in my home village of Dandot, Pakistan, was beginning to make a difference in someone's life. I had received the highest reward-the gratitude of that girl was priceless.

This was the beginning of SunShine, an educational initiative I started as a response to the dire need for education in my home town. We initiated our first "school within a school" concept with a selection of twenty students. Today we have 800 students in two villages and we continue to grow.

Starting my career in the private sector and moving into the development sector, I eventually created my own path in social entrepreneurship. Along the way, I have seen some success and plenty of failure. I have learned that success is directly proportional to the attempts made for it. In the face of failure, hope is a wonderfully powerful emotion. It puts you back on track whenever you lose the sight of your goal. I have had a recent series of failures in my project's implementation and financing. However one thing has kept me going. I have seen that belief and conviction is the key to success. Despite these recent issues, I have come to realize that I am happy for what I am doing even when the setbacks get me down.

History is filled with examples of people, from Thomas Edison to Oprah Winfrey, who failed miserably and repeatedly before finding success. Michael Jordan, who was cut from his high school basketball, but refused to give up on his dream, once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

Life is full of successes and failures, but in my experience, the worst failures are still better than the regret of not even trying for what you hope to accomplish. Today as I work to reconfigure my organization and my strategies for bringing better education to Pakistani schoolchildren, I am uncertain about which path is best to take. Yet one thing that is clear is that I will try my best to make it work and will not lose hope.

So to all my friends out there, don't let failure hold you back. Get up, strike back and fail better; for success is sometimes wrapped in your passion and belief and above all your unalterable conviction that it is possible. Don't fear failures; they are the first step to success.

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Why Failure Teaches Success despite our Overwhelming Focus on Successes

For the past decade or two positive language has become the norm and 'problems' have almost disappeared from our vocabulary, being renamed 'challenges' and other less daunting labels.

According to vision and mission statements and corporate communication, the world is full of "number one", "world class" and "groundbreaking" companies that do not seem to fail.

Why does so much corporate language seem so decoupled from the human realities that we all know and experience - realities, which we know perfectly well that failures are part of.

Successful career trajectories are rarely the one-tracked success hype they are at times dressed up to appear like. On the contrary, evidence shows that failure is part of the journey to success. In fact, high achieving people almost always stumble several times and quite often suffer to reach their level of success.

That's what we see when we study scientific evidence or biographies of great achievers in politics, business, art, sports, and life. Failures, defeats, and pain almost always precede success just like Monday always come before Saturday.

According to a fresh and deep digging 10-year study published in the Harvard Business Review, track records of failures are the trademark of top performing leaders, not the exception:

"Virtually all CEO candidates had made material mistakes in the past, and 45% of them had had at least one major career blowup that ended a job or was extremely costly to the business" (Botelho et al. 2017)

Leaders are risk takers and they should be. Since organizations and environments are partially unpredictable, taking calculated risks is expected and unavoidable. However, risk by definition means the probability of failure. So if you hire a person with an unstained track record, you could end up with a person unable to lead or innovate.

After all, if you have few or no misses, perhaps you have fired too few shots or none at all.

We should not be surprised by this. History and extraordinary achievers have already told us:

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly"

Robert F. Kennedy

"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It's the courage to continue that counts"

Winston S. Churchill

"Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success"

Success seems to be a lot about the courage to take risks, humble hard work, and lots of learning along the way. Including stumbling and falling, big or small, painful or just embarrassing.

In some industries avoidance of failure is the very core of their business, because of the high-risk nature of what they are doing. Of course, in industries where people die or get seriously hurt if a failure occurs, other approaches and attitudes to failure are necessary.

Examples are airlines and within some sectors of the military, health care, oil, and chemical industry. Ironically these industries seem to be among the very best at learning from mistakes. Their very few mistakes are deeply analyzed and they typically have well-developed systems for reporting, analyzing, and learning from "almost mistakes" and weaknesses.

Openness about Failure Builds Learning and Trust.

A few years ago, when teaching a leadership course, I asked participants to work in groups and discuss their most valuable learning experiences. Then I asked each group to choose one person to get up in front of us and share her or his greatest learning moment. In times of obsession with positive reinforcement and an almost exclusive ignorance of negative reinforcement, I expected to hear a bunch of hype success stories.

But I was wrong. Practically all of them shared a story of a big failure and what they learned from it. Obviously, these experiences left strong footprints in their minds and were quite emotional for some. Effectively, as they made no attempts at hiding these mistakes, their failures were valuable lessons from which major learning points were salvaged.

That's the approach of true performers. While a hide-and-seek attitude to failures might be tempting to save face, it's short sighted and seldom works in the long run.

Perfection Creates Suspicion

Years ago, a former colleague of mine started his new job by claiming at the lunch table, on his very first day: "Would you believe it, in my 20-year career, I have actually never had a failure?" Nobody reacted. Not a word around the table, just a long silence. I guess most of us were thinking "Well buddy, you just did.....".

Employees and coworkers are experienced human beings bearing their own defeats, failures, disappointments, and scars. They get suspicious when people appear too perfect and too smooth. They do not ask: "show me an A-student, a perfect person with an unbroken record of successes and I will follow".

They are too wise for that. Any attempt to claim an unstained track record will foster suspicion rather than trust. Honesty about one's own weaknesses and failures creates trust and identification. Therefore, people will usually respect others that have the integrity and confidence to be open about their failures and fears.

I am not suggesting that we should replace a "go do it right" ideal with "go do it wrong". I am merely proposing that since we're all human we will make mistakes. No matter how hard we try and how good we are at what we are doing. The best achievers seem to tap into the learning potential of any given situation, good or bad, and be open about it.

If we dare to view success and failure, not as contradictions, but as accompanying partners on a journey, this will open doors of opportunity to benefit from the important learning experiences of both failure and success. Jim Collins, for instance, has illustrated in his comprehensive research ("Built to Last"), how very successful companies are likely to master this balance.

Trial and Error are in our Genes

No matter what profession, organization, or corporate level, we're all in the business of human behavior. Humans are the motor behind any return on investment or creation of welfare, and as previously mentioned, human beings fail.

Trial and error are in our genes from our very birth, developed through millennia, long before schooling was even thought of. Trial and error is simply the first way of learning we stumble upon and the one that comes most naturally to us.

An average child tries and fails 10,000 times before learning to walk. What persistence, what courage. 10,000 times!! One-year-old children are not afraid to fall, even though they get hurt now and then. How come then, most of us somewhere along the way become afraid of failure and later in life have to struggle to regain the go-try-it mentality that was once given to us by nature? Perhaps that's a question for society, education, organizations, and leaders to consider very carefully.

A Real-Life Anecdote about how Failure Teaches Success

A totally screwed up sales presentation I made many years ago taught me my most valuable lesson about sales ever. Moreover, the way my leader handled it was a case of strong leadership that I often think of with a smile and gratefulness, even after all these years.

As a young junior in a managing consultancy company, my boss created an opening to make a sales presentation of a market research project for the board of a chain of office suppliers. He would be there as an observer only.

I worked my pants off and arrived armed to the teeth with slides, facts and bright answers to any questions of methods or statistic that anybody might ask. Nonetheless, I bored 12 business leaders to death with all of my knowledge of sampling, questionnaires, and levels of significance.

Within 10 minutes some of them seemed to be sleeping with their eyes open. It became perhaps the longest 30 minutes of my professional life. My boss was there, but he did not say a word during what felt like a disastrous presentation.

On our three hour drive home, he asked me in a calm and kind manner, "What do you think about today?"

I told him that I felt like I had screwed up. That I had put half of the board to sleep and that I did not know what I did wrong or how to correct it.

"I'm glad you say that because I think you're right, " he said. Then he told me very briefly and kindly why nobody cares about the "how" unless you sell them the "why". That was it. Not a harsh word, no blame, nothing. Two weeks later he asked me whether I wanted to attain sales training, and I was perfectly aware that it would be quite wise to say yes.

Why do I think that this was strong leadership? Because he ensured three important things:

1. He recognized that I had worked hard and did my very best.

2. He assured that I knew and accepted that I had failed.

3. He assured that I was willing to learn and gave me the opportunity to do so.

A perhaps even more important sign of strong leadership: he built confidence and courage by showing me the soul of our company culture: "If you do your best, take responsibility, and is prepared to learn - then when you fail - nobody around here will blame you for failing".

What's your Attitude to Failure and does it Prepare for the Future?

How do you handle the failures of your employees or colleagues? Does your attitude support the goals you want to achieve and the culture you want to breed?

What's your attitude towards failures when you hire? Does that attitude leave you with the skills and personality types you need?

It might cause the reflection to not always look for the A-student smooth talker with unbroken records of all the 'right' experiences, achievements and education when hiring. Or with Tom Peter's words:
"Never hire Mr. or Mrs. Right!! His resumé is impeccable. He strides into his interview brimming with confidence. He reels off all the right answers. He fits perfectly. But wait - this is a highly imperfect world. People who live by the book die by the book. Look instead for Mr. or Mrs. Slightly-off-the-Wall. Someone who can respond to and thrive amid chaos, who can mutate to meet the demands of the hour (or minute)" (1994).
Interesting research by Argyris (1991) describes how too much success can be a serious obstacle, preventing otherwise high achieving professionals from learning from failure - when they need it the most:

When do we have the Strongest need for Learning?

According to Chris Argyris, the demand for learning is strongest in situations that call for not merely an improvement of our existing approach, but rather a completely different approach. He calls this double-loop learning.

People with successful track records are shown to be highly skilled at single-loop learning, yet often fall short of mastering double-loop learning.

"Put simply, because many professionals are almost always successful at what they do, they rarely experience failure. And because they have rarely failed, they have never learned how to learn from failure.

So whenever their single-loop learning strategies go wrong, they become defensive, screen out criticism, and put the "blame" on anyone and everyone but themselves. In short, their ability to learn shuts down precisely at the moment they need it the most."

Many things are changing around us at a breathtaking pace ( see Mintzberg). Yet, other things seem quite unchanged. Like the qualities of courage to accept a risk and the resilience to learn from failures instead of letting them break us down.

Undoubtedly we will need these qualities even more in a future that continues to bring more complexity and a faster pace of change in society and business (see previous article: 8 complexity management strategies that will help you cope).

Although rising complexity and the pace of change create additional opportunities for innovation, with these opportunities comes the risk of failure. Undoubtedly, when the target gets hard to see through the clutter, you will have more misses.

Furthermore, when you're aiming at a fast moving target, you are sure to increase your amount of misses. Rising complexity and societies of innovation all call for the courage to accept risks and the resilience to grow from failures.

References:

Academy of Management (2017) " Managers learn better from others' failures than they do from their successes

Argyris, Chris (1991). Teaching smart people how to learn, Harvard Business Review, May-June.

Botelho, Elena Lytkina; Kim Rosenkoetter Powell, Stephen Kincaid, Dina Wang (2017). What Sets Successful CEOs Apart? Harvard Business Review, May-June.

The CEO Genome Project (2017).

Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek (2008). The Value of Failure. Harvard Business Review, October

Collins, Jim (2005). "Built to Last - Successful habits of visionary companies". Random House Business Books.

Forbes 2013. 30 powerful quotes on failure.

Peters, Tom (1994). The Pursuit of Wow. Macmillan.

Kim Buch-Madsen has comprehensive experience in the fields of innovation, management, and business strategy. Kim is a partner in a digital content start-up and accredited censor by the Danish Ministry of Education. He is the author and co-author of several books including the brand new "Marketing Models" and the upcoming "Modern Business Strategy". He holds a bachelor degree in business analysis and a Master of Science degree in strategy, management, and marketing.

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Failure is the first step to success-By Danial

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The majority of people always revere success, and abhor failure (because they consider it to be completely opposite of success).

But, in truth, failure is an integral part of success because it certainly contributes to the learning process.

You cannot enrich your knowledge, improve your expertise, strengthen your competence, or perfect your technique without failing and learning from the experience. If you avoid failure, you may also avoid success.

Life consists of a series of large and small failures usually rounded with success. Life is a process of continuous learning through your mistakes, it is dynamic process in which you can't get it right until you get it wrong in the beginning. This means that failure is actually a delay, a detour on the road to success.

Every time you fail at something take a positive approach, because failure is not your enemy, but your friend. This will help you focus on the next try, because with every failure you're closer to success. If you succeed in the end, it doesn't matter if you fail 99 times. You'll be remembered for your success, for that last try that brought you the success were striving for. In fact, a lot of the greatest successes that people remember and celebrate today came after failure.

Persistence, dedication and hard work are some of the key qualities of people who achieve their goals. They don't let their failures stop them. Instead, they use their failures to learn and improve their personal skills and strengths. Here are 4 reasons why failure is the first step to success:

Failure Is the Road to Success

Failure is the perfect catalyst for success. It gives you the right perspective of success, and brings you closer to it by pushing you to work harder and get outside your comfort zone. It helps you realize the mistakes you make in your approach, and make the appropriate change so that you can continue smarter and stronger.

Instead of complaining about your mistakes, you should learn from them and try to become better. So, it is very important for you to realize that failure is not a definition of your abilities, but it is the road to success.

You can change your perspective by changing the way you think and say things that are on your mind. For example:

"What can I do better?" instead "What did I do wrong?"

"How can I improve myself?" instead "Why am I not good enough?"

"Who can I help get better so that we are better as a team?" instead "Why is that other person failing us?"

Failure Teaches Perseverance and Endurance

It is much easier to quit chasing your dreams after failing. However, if you are a person who wants to succeed, you have to understand that failure is not tragic at all. In fact, you should treat failure as a teacher and not undertaker. You shouldn't give up on your dreams just because things didn't work out the first time.

If you're determined and decisive, you'll realize that all your efforts are not just wasting time. When you fail, you should immediately look for a different approach and continue working even harder and with more enthusiasm. This teaches perseverance and endurance, as it helps you to remember how important your goal is, and why you should never give up. If you want to be a successful person, you won't quit when things get tough, instead you'll stick to your goal until you succeed.

Successful People Are Not Afraid to Fail

Successful people take action as soon as possible without being afraid of failure. They are actually excited about experimenting and getting involved into something that could bring results.

Trying over and over again is the secret that successful people apply in their lives every day. They take actions even when they know it won't bring them perfect results. They fail forward by learning from their mistakes, experimenting, practicing and trying new approaches. This attitude makes them even more successful.

Successful People Use Failures to Succeed

Failure is a stepping stone on the way to success. Successful people analyze their failures and learn from them in order to improve themselves. Don't get too emotional, forget about all the pain you felt when you failed for the first time. Instead, focus on your next move that will lead you on the right way to success.

To succeed, it is very important to be flexible, and to adapt a different attitude towards failure. You should take things under your control and don't let failure lead your life. This is the best, and actually the only way to achieve great things in life. Always remember your dreams, never give up on them, and move on with your head held high.

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4 Reasons Why Failure Is the First Step to Success

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The majority of people always revere success, and abhor failure (because they consider it to be completely opposite of success). But, in truth, failure is an integral part of success because it certainly contributes to the learning process. You cannot enrich your knowledge, improve your expertise, strengthen your competence, or perfect your technique without failing and learning from the experience.