Fail Your Way to the Top: The Key to Unlocking Your Potential

7 Fail-Proof Methods for Turning Failure into Fuel for Success

If you’ve ever seen the movie Cool Hand Luke, there’s a scene where the main character, Luke, fights the “leader” of the inmates.

Luke continually gets knocked down, but no matter how badly he gets beat up, he never stops getting back up. He loses the fight, but he wins the respect and admiration of everyone around him.

This is what dangerous men and women do.

They keep getting back up.

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

Maybe, you’re bruised and battered? Maybe you’ve fallen time after time, experienced loss after loss, and failure after failure?

Get back up.

Success lies in rising from your failures.

A dangerous person seeks failures.

Successful people know that if they keep trying, success is inevitable. They know they’re only one more attempt away from winning.

The well-known inventor, Thomas Edison failed 1,000 times before successfully created the first light bulb. Can you believe that? 1,000 times!

When asked by a reporter, “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?”.

Edison replied,

“I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.”

Every failure is, but the next step in the pathway to success; another piece of a larger puzzle.

The key is to reframe how you see failure.

How to Reframe Failure:

1. Understand that failure is just a stepping stone.

2. Realize that failure builds resilience and perseverance.

3. Recognize that ego is the enemy, not the failure?

4. Understand that all successful people fail regularly but have learned to appreciate it.

5. Perceive failure as just another opportunity to learn.

6. Know that you are not a failure. It is not your identity.

7. Failure makes inevitable success that much better.

Become a Dangerous Person; seek failure, not success.

Have you read the first of the “How to Become Dangerous” Series? If not, click here.