Your Success = Double Your Failure Rate

by Asif Valiji, Associate Mentor, Lighthouse International

For most of us growing up we are taught that failure is bad and that we need to perform well in education through exams and later at work through getting great jobs. Our mindset can often be that to succeed we mustn’t fail and therefore we learn to avoid it at all costs. Well, in the lives of legends that simply isn’t the case as the story below by Og Mandino in his book ‘A Better Way to Live’ shows…

“It’s 1974. Hank Aaron is in pursuit of Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record. Og Mandino calls the Atlanta Braves and asks a young staffer how many times Hank struck out.

“Strikeouts?” the young man asks.

“Yep,” says Og. “I know Hank has 710 homers but how many strikeouts does he have?”

After a few minutes of researching, the young man comes back on the line and delivers the report: “As of last night, Hank has 1,262 strikeouts.”

710 homers. 1,262 strikeouts. Our hero Hank Aaron has struck out nearly TWICE the number of times he’s hit homers. And, he’s the best ever.” – Og Mandino, ‘A better way to live’

Failure is THE road to achieving success, provided you learn from those failures! Without one there cannot be the other. As Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM says…

“If you want success, double your failure rate.”

Thanks to Brian Johnson for the original quote for this article.

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