Success is all about perspective

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” — Thomas A. Edison, American inventor and businessman

Success is all about perspective. If you think about each “failure” as a learning experience, you’ll come out on top every time.

In science, mistakes are just opportunities for learning something new, which is, after all, what scientific experiments are all about. Even if the experiment “doesn’t work,” we usually learn something valuable from it. Speaking of mistakes, don't judge people on making mistakes. We're all making mistakes. Judge people on how they handle it.

Failure always brings something valuable with it. Don't let failure slip away until you have taken away something. It is better to think of failure as a tool rather than an outcome. If you just failed a test or had a social encounter that didn't go your way, try to find some nugget buried in there that can be useful. Maybe your study methods are trash. Maybe you stink or your body language needs some improvement. 

Success likes to hide itself in failure. If success was easy, everyone would be doing it. This keeps the lazy people out of the game. 

Finally, a car's windshield is large but the rear view mirror is small because our past is not as important as our future. "Hey past. Yeah, we know you are back there. But we will choose look ahead and move on."

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