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BUILD ON BOTH YOUR FAILURES AND YOUR STRENGTHS
“Sometimes you have to work with what you have through the failures until it works out.”
In life, you do not only build on your strengths alone. Instead, you must also learn to build on your failures as well, otherwise you risk wasting your time and progress by always starting over from the bottom time and again.
Starting afresh sounds so nice an idea until you realize that you are not growing any younger and that you are losing opportunities for progress every time you allow yourself the luxury of repeating grade one.
Sometimes you have to work with what you have through the failures until it works out. Realize that failure does not always mean that you must start over. It may mean that you learn what is not working well in the process of building up.
So instead of tearing down the whole wall because of one bad brick, you must learn to just remove or repair the bad brick and keep building. Pick this clue: When there is a failure, everything is not spoilt. It’s just an opportunity to repair.
Don’t despair. Fix the one thing without tearing down everything.
- So that marriage is not over! Just repair. Don’t despair.
- Your Career is not over. Just repair. Don’t despair.
- Your life is not over — Repair! Don’t despair!
In life, there is always some progressive good in things that go wrong. To underscore my point, I want you to learn from this: The Japanese never throw away broken pottery. They always fix the broken pottery with gold, so that the once broken clay vessel ends up looking more beautiful than the one that has never broken before. Think about that!
