Embracing Failure: It’s the New Success
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
I’ve been thinking about failure since reading this excellent post on Embrace Failure on my favorite children’s literature blog, From the Mixed Up Files of Middle Grade Authors. As an entrepreneur, I embrace failure. It is the surest and quickest path to success. Why? It’s life’s best teacher. You never forget a failure. You learn from it, deeply and profoundly as in: it keeps you up late a night, pondering, questioning, wondering. It provides options in the form of a nicely forking road. Do you get back in the saddle and try again, all the wiser? Or do you veer left, shimmy right, or duck down below? Failure makes you creative. If you are going to ram your head against the wall, the next time you will choose a nicely padded one.
“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”
Not everyone agrees of course. Most pointedly, failure is not an option in Tiger Parenting. “The Chinese parenting