Who is a Better Teacher - Failure Or Success?

"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Picasso.
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." -Buddha
I've been reading about success and failure for the last couple of years now. It still amazes me how many SUCCESSFUL persons will say that FAILURE is the best teacher when comes to life lessons. A couple of years ago, while I was in college, I used to say to myself many times trough the day: "Failure is not an option". Was I motivating myself the wrong way?

As I said before, many athletes, entrepreneurs, politicians, musicians and all kind of successful people claim to have learned more from their errors, their failures than from their success...Donald Trump, successful businessman and real estate developer once said: "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war." The meaning behind that statement is just .. INCREDIBLE.

Maybe, I wasn't wrong about failure is not an option...when you've learn your lessons trough life.

I believe that the element that makes failure such a good teacher is the amount of effort you need to put on your situation to have a 180 degrees turn around...If you are not creating the kind of success you want right now, there is a reason for that...At this moment of my life of course I want BIG Success....But I embrace FAILURE as a very valuable teacher....like a voice in my head that says: "you can't do that...unless...".

I honestly believe that in order to be successful you have to take managed risks. If you know what you worth, what you are made of you gotta be willing to take full responsibility of your errors and more importantly to LEARN from them. Every single mistake I've made lately, has become later on a very VALUABLE lesson for the rest of my life.

So the next time that you feel that you go down and don't know what to do remember:

"Success came when emotion left" - Mike Dillard.

By Cesar Fasano