The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- To succeed, one must accept failure as a natural and necessary step in reaching the top.
- In plain terms
- Learn to see failure as a normal part of becoming successful.
- What can you take from it?
- Embrace failure as a learning step toward success.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you react to setbacks?
- What have you learned from failures?
Another view
Repetitive failure without learning can hinder progress rather than help.
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