Turning Failures Into Opportunities

To profit from experience you must be open and willing to learn, even from what some people might consider a failure.

Don't have have a narrow and negative understanding of the meaning of failure. If you tend to hide from failures, you will never create breakthroughs and block valuable learning forward.

→ Noble Failure

What may seem to be a failure can actually lead to new opportunities, especially if the knowledge acquired from the failed projects can be exploited.

 → Right learning questions can serve as a starting point for the assimilation of learning.

→ 6 Mindsets of a Great Achiever

Changing your → attitude is the key to finding success in seeming failure. "Optimistic thinking has sometimes gotten a bad rap as being unrealistic, but research has found that we can indeed live → happier, healthier, and → more successful lives if we can learn to discover opportunities in problems," says Charles C. Manz.² These problems then become merely challenging opportunities that we can turn to our advantage.

→ Be a Victor

Don't talk about problems, talk about opportunities.

Vadim Kotelnikov

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford Ford Moror

Find the silver lining in every cloud. Setbacks aren’t problems, they’re opportunities.  >>>

Tom Kelley IDEO

I have not failed 700 times. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

Thomas Edison

Many costly Microsoft product failures provided the learning and opportunity for development of many of Microsoft's biggest successes.

Bill Gates Micsosoft

"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."

~ Phyllis Bottome

"Admit to ‒ and learn from ‒ your mistakes. Mistakes must be viewed → positively... because with the → knowledge you gain from them, you are able to do better in the future. So much can be accomplished with a long-term → Vision and resilience to short-term setbacks. Not every problem is conquered overnight, but if you persist and never give in to your mistakes, you will → Succeed ."

~ Craig Ballantyne