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Failure & Perception
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Put failure in the right perspective, it's an opportunity
for regrouping and evaluation while accepting the experience
as part of the journey of success. Rich lessons are
the fruit of failure and your can extract them at will. |
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Failure & Change
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Change depreciates the value of past information,
thus making predictions difficult, ambiguous, and correspondingly
risky. In the presence of change, you must adjust your
course-of-action to align with desirable new realities. |
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Failure & Limitation
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In a world of limitation, the fundamental question
is not whether people should accept failure. Rather,
the question is how to anticipate failure and redirect
resources to grow from the experience. |
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Failure & Information
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Information scarcity will present itself somewhere,
somehow, sometime. The key is to learn from what this
new failure teaches and prevent it, if at all possible,
from happening again. |
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Failure & Perfection
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Perfection is unattainable, but failure is always
possible! Any assumption regarding perfection stands
at odds with the most fundamental premise of success:
failure is inevitable. |
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Failure & Planning
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Because the future is so hard to predict, we must
attempt to pierce uncertainties fog as best we can.
Your goal is to estimate and anticipate failures with
tolerable precision. |
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Failure & Execution
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Failure is not only the output of an unsuccessful
activity; it is also the input of a successful one.
Performance only changes and improves to the degree
that you change and improve. |
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Failure & Mistakes
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Those with an eye for success respond first by anticipating
mistakes. Second, we accept responsibility for them.
Life is for learning lessons and mistakes are some of
your best teachers. |
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Failure & Consequence
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Some look at failure as an extremely blunt instrument
and surrender their dreams because of its potential
consequences. Although tempting, do not allow the consequences
of failure to harden your heart. |
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Failure & Progress
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The world is littered with the victims
of failure. Yet failure leads to victory. Use each failure
as feedback in your constant progression toward your
goals. Our world is one of adjustment, of conflict,
and of mutual gains and losses. In short, of failure
and progress. |