Then of course when we lose in life at anything, we always initially feel stupid, naive, confused and regret our decisions. It can seem in these moments that you just want the world to swallow you up, that things really couldn't get any worse.
But in reality there is no escape from what we allow and no matter how bad things get, things really could be worse and could be better always - it is through failure that we learn the path to success, there really is no such thing as losing, because if your not winning then that means you are still learning the path to victory. So lets look at the words of a few famous people in history in relation to this -
- Winston Churchil: "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Theodore Roosevelt: "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
- Conor McGregor: "I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'Ok, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them."
All of these quotes highlight crucial points to remember about success and failure, so starting with the first one - if you have ever trained martial arts for instance, there is no straight line to becoming a black belt. You have to get beaten repeatedly in training and keep your enthusiasm to succeed and become the actual black belt.
Second quote really highlights that its always best to dream big, to get to victory by walking a tough road full of failures - because most people in life try to "play it safe" which results in a mundane life where the fruits of real success and real failure are never experienced. If you look at the structure of capitalism you can see that the middle class is mainly comprised of people who live in this "gray twilight" that Roosevelt was speaking about.
The last one comes from a fighter who has made a lot of money but still faces more failures, like last night when he lost an MMA fight. But Conor is highlighting well in this quote that there is no end result to success or failure, when you reach your goal, or you fail, either way you just keep going, just keep climbing to the next pinnacle, learning in life never ceases as long as you keep moving yourself.
This past week I have faced multiple failures myself and these quotes among others have assisted me a lot to learn from these failures, because I have never had a straight line to success in anything I have ever achieved, but its funny how our brainwashed minds expects a straight line at times.
One of my respected mentors in life has been telling me a lot recently that I must become one of the greatest failures in life, so that I can learn to become one of the greatest successes.
I will be correcting the thought patterns, the pre-programmes that I have accepted and allowed which have resulted in these failures happening because everything comes back to myself here and there is no sense in repeating the same mistakes without learning from these failures and changing myself.
Join me next time as I continue to walk my journey to life here.
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