More like a theme today...
In the speech President Obama gave to schools today he said...
"And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try. That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
I'm taken by the quote from Michael Jordan. So many people are afraid of failure and it keeps them motivated to work hard and stay late at work and overachieve, yet failure is the very thing that helps people succeed.
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While looking for some images to include with this post, I found this...
Success and Failure: Two Necessary Sides of the Same Coin
Most of us enjoy reading recipes for success. The topic of failure tends to be far less popular. And yet, in business we say "If you're not occasionally failing at something, you're probably setting your sights for success way too low." I like Soichiro Honda's quote. Here's a business legend who set very high expectations for himself and his automobile company. Yet he viewed failure in the context of it simply being a necessary means to achieving an outstanding end.
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'Tis a lesson you should heed,
Try, try, try again;
'If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try, try again.
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