Can You Be Considered Successful If You Succeed At Failing?

Failure is often seen as the opposite of success, but in reality, mastering failure is the key to success

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We all know that famous quote from Thomas Edison: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”. Now, I am not sure if the number of his attempts is accurate, but the point is clear; he tried many, many times.

So, if you think about it, Edison was surely successful at failing, managing to do so thousands of times. Actually, we could even say that he had mastered failure.

But we don’t consider him successful for that, do we?
No. We remember him for his final attempt; the one that worked.

We are being so unfair to failure, although success is usually its child…
Thank God Edison didn’t see things like that!
If he did, he would have stopped trying long before the light bulb went on.

Τhe stigma of mistakes and failure

When I see red pen marks in my son’s dictation notebook, I say, “Well done! You created great opportunities…