Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm – Winston Churchill
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I have not failed. I have just found 10.000 ways that will not work. Thomas A. Edison
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I’ve missed over 9,000 shots in my career.
I’ve lost almost 300 games.
26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed – Michael Jordan
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Movies can be an important source of inspiration and motivation.
In this article, John Rampton has selected 10 movies which can teach us some useful lessons for work as well as private life.
Among them:
– “The social network” which shows the importance of flexibility and resilience
– “Citizen Kane” by Orson Welles which stresses what is really important in life
– “The pursuit of happiness” which highlights that passion and sacrifice are parts of success
– “Jerry Maguire” which pushes us to believe in our dreams and follow them.
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill
Elizabeth Gilbert in a recent Ted Talk analyses the way we experience great failure and the way we experience great success.
In this moving video she describes how “for most of our lives, we live out our existence here in the middle of the chain of human experience where everything is normal and reassuring and regular, but failure catapults us abruptly way out over here into the blinding darkness of disappointment. Success catapults us just as abruptly but just as far way out over here into the equally blinding glare of fame and recognition and praise. And there’s a real equal danger in both cases of getting lost out there… in the hinterlands of the psyche.”
Even if you fall on your face, you are still moving forward.
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In his Ted Talk Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments.
“The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.”
Do not fear failure.
Successful people use failure as a way to learn and a way to practice. Do not view anything as failure, rather a necessary stepping stone to success.
J.J. Goldwag
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