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Five Ways To Harness Failure And Turn It To Massive Success
How to use failure to your advantage
If you think about it, aiming to achieve anything significant in life comes at a cost, including failure. Nowhere is success ever guaranteed.
Every time we set out to achieve our goals and change the condition of our lives by doing something we’ve not done before, whether it’s writing a book, starting a business, competing in a sport, moving to a new city, or getting married, the odds of failure is just as high as that of success.
To make the leap and go after what you want without fear requires not only recognizing the possibility of failure and embracing it but also knowing how to turn failure into a massive success.
History is replete with tales of people from all fields of life who failed in their creative pursuits but went on to achieve their goals.
Thomas Edison had thousands of patents that never got noticed. J. K. Rowling, Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and others — all had their share of epic failures on the road to becoming renowned.
We see the same trend even among the most successful modern biz founders and entrepreneurs.
Travis Kalanick’s first business went underground before Uber. Virgin founder Richard…