How to Benefit From Failure

Video People love success stories, but freak out at the prospect of failure. If you want success in any aspect of your life, then you have to embrace failure and build on the benefits it generates. There are four keys to unlocking the benefits of failure. Mastering these four will yield five [...]
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For some people, failure ruins them. For others, it is just the beginning of something wonderful. How do we make sure when we fail, we're the latter?

We live in a competitive society that has big winners and big losers. Educators, motivation experts, life coaches, sport psychologists and other mentors mainly teach us how to approach success, how to be winners. Few teach us a much more valuable lesson – how to cope with failure.

The ego is the enemy of innovation. Economist Tim Harford explains why a complex world demands that we accept our mistakes and adapt rapidly.
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Never doubt it for a second!  Your failure in any ebusiness venture is a valuable learning experience that can’t be duplicated in any other way.  Not by a college ...
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford You seem to be doing everything right but somehow you always fail. That

When looked at correctly, failure can teach us where we went wrong in the first place, and how we can learn to pick ourselves up again in a pursuit to succeed. We seem to have a problem with failure in America. Not in the sense that everyone is failing, but more in the way that failure is seen as the thing that must not happen at any cost. We are surrounded by children who get a trophy just for showing up, while we have others who will never get a trophy even though they work hard every day. Unfortunately, in...