To succeed first you have to fail
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To succeed, you must first fail as failure provides practice for success. Failure is not the opposite of success but rather the precursor that leads to it. How you deal with failure determines your success, as failure is an opportunity to practice getting up after falling and learning from mistakes.
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To succeed first you have to fail
- 1. To Succeed… First You Have to Fail Joel High CC, CL Professional Speaker Manual Project #5
- 11. •Failure is not the antithesis of success. It is the precursor of success. •Practice getting up because you will fall and you need to know what to do when it happens. •Failure is practice for success. •Success is a result of how you deal with failure.
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- Have you ever watched a toddler who is learning to walk?If you have then you will remember that they don’t do a very good job at first. Toddlers fall a lot more than they actually walk. At least at first. Imagine this your sitting in your living room and your 11 month old daughter crawls over to the couch. She pulls herself up to standing. She lets go of the couch with one of her hands, reaches out, takes a tentative step, wobbles a little, steadies herself, lets go with the other hands takes another tentative step and falls right on her bum. Luckily she has that nice thick diaper on. What does she do next? She gets right back up and does it again. She has just failed at walking but she doesn’t give up. Intuitively she knows she has to try again until she gets it right, until she can walk just like mom and dad and her brothers.
- Madame Toastmaster, fellow Toastmasters and honored guests today I will tell you why it is so critical to success in any thing you do from walking to work to love and even hobbies to fail. Yes, that’s right if you want to succeed in life you are going to have to fail first and probably many times before you get it right. Through this presentation I will share with you 4 key points about failure and success.
- Who here has ever failed? (Ask for show of hands)We have all failed at one time or another in life. Many of us, myself included, have failed many, many times. In fact I’d bet some of us have even failed at something today. But looking out on everyone here today I also see a lot of successful people. #1 Failure is not the antithesis of success. It is the precursor of success.
- To be successful is what we all want. We want to be successful as parents, successful in love, successful at work, some of us dream of being successful athletes or actors or authors. None of us set out to be failures. In fact most of us run from failure. We see it as embarrassing. We compare ourselves to others who we deem as successful.
- A few years ago this lesson about failure finally made complete sense. Both of my sons play hockey. When my oldest son Henry started playing hockey at 4 years old I saw this poster hanging at one of the local hockey rinks. Fall. Get up. Fall. Get Up. Hockey teaches a kid a lot more than how to skate. Hockey teaches kids how to succeed.It’s so true. When Henry, and later Danny, was learning to skate and play hockey he fell down a lot. Back then he needed his protective equipment not for the screaming pucks and hard hits but because he fell down a lot.And you know what is the first thing hockey coaches teach kids to do when they get on the ice? They teach them how to get up. Not how to skate or how to shoot a puck or how to check. They teach them how to get up.Coaches know that kids are going to fall and they need to know how to get up.
- #2 We all need to know how to get up because we are all going to fall. And the secret to success is that if you know how to get up when you fall that you won’t ever be down too long. In fact like a toddler learning to walk or a kid learning to ice skate. The more times you fall down and get back up the stronger you become and the more successful you are at whatever you are trying to do.
- If you are going to be successful at anything you are going to have to get up one more time than you fall down.
- Failure leads to success. It is important to learn from our failures. That is what successful people do. That’s why athletes watch game tape. They are learning what they did wrong and where they can improve. That’s why we do homework in school. #3 Failure is practice for success.
- Thomas Edisonis known as one of America’s greatest inventors. He is best known for having invented the light bulb. But what most people don’t know is that he failed at inventing the light bulb thousands of times before finally figuring out how to create a filament that would last longer than a few hours. He could have seen himself as a failure after a few failures or even a few hundred. But instead every time he fell down he got back up and tried again. He put his failures into perspective when he said, “I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Today we see Edison as a successful person rather than a failure. Each of us can achieve success when we learn from our failures instead of being beaten by our failures. #4 Success is a result of how you deal with failure.
- There are four key points about failure.Failure is not the antithesis of success. It is the precursor of success.Practicegetting up because you will fall and you need to know what to do when it happens.Failure is practice for success.Success is a result of how you deal with failure.
- Samuel Beckett, the great playwright, sums up the process of success well.Ever tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.If you want to be truly successful then go out and fail brilliantly! Madame Toastmaster.