The "Chinese Idiom Dictionary" explains "Failure is the mother of success" as follows: mother, precursor. It means being good at learning from failures in order to succeed. According to research, it originated from the myth of Gun and Yu's flood control.
“One must learn to walk and also learn to wrestle. And only through wrestling can one learn to walk”---Marx
Some people today have not learned to walk. For humans, the challenge may still be a headache. We now see the challenge as a long-term, far-reaching threat that is beyond our control. Every tomorrow is hope. No matter what kind of adversity you fall into, you should not despair, because there are still many tomorrows ahead. Optimistic people are still full of hope in despair; pessimistic people are still desperate in hope.
Why are we sometimes afraid to put our dreams into action? Is it because you feel it’s too late, or are you afraid of failure? Don’t worry, it’s not too late to start! Starting from scratch, running your own life, you may gain more.
I heard this story a few days ago: 50 years ago, there was an American named Carl. His family ran a grocery store, and the business was not good. Young Carl told his parents that since they had been operating without success for so many years, they should change their mind and think of other ways. There are several universities near his home, and students often come out to eat fast food. Carl thought that since no one had opened a pizza house nearby, selling pizza would definitely work, so he opened a pizza house opposite his family's grocery store. He decorated the pizza house exquisitely and warmly, which is very in line with the elegant and emotional characteristics of the students. In less than a year, Carl's pizza became a famous food in the neighborhood, and it was packed with customers every day. He opened two more branches and the business was also very good.
Carl's appetite began to grow, and he opened two more stores in Oklahoma without stopping. But soon, bad news came one after another, and his two branches suffered serious losses. At first, he prepared 500 pizzas per store, but half of the pizzas were always unsold. Later, he prepared another 200 portions, but there was still a lot left. In the end, he simply prepared 50 copies. This was a number that was not even enough for rent, but it still didn't work. Finally, there was a situation where only a few people came in a day. They both sell pizza and both cities have universities. Why did it fail in Oklahoma? Soon he discovered a problem. There were huge differences in the diet and tastes of students in the two cities. In addition, he also made mistakes in the decoration and formula. He quickly corrected the problem, and business soon boomed.
In New York, he also suffered. He did a very detailed market research, but the pizza just couldn't open the market. Later, he discovered that the reason why he couldn't sell the pizza was that the hardness of the pizza was not to the taste of New Yorkers. He immediately worked on new recipes, changed the hardness, and eventually pizza became a must-have breakfast item for New Yorkers.
Counting from the first pizzeria, 19 years later Carl’s pizzerias spread all over the United States, with a total of more than 3,000 pizzerias, with a total value of more than 300 million US dollars.
Karl said: "Every time I open a new store in a city, nine out of ten times it fails. In the end, I succeeded because I never thought about retreating after the failure, but actively thought about the reasons for the failure and worked hard. Think of new ways. Because you can’t be sure when you will succeed, you must learn to fail first.”
This little story inspired me a lot. In fact, this is really the reality. When you succeed, there will be challenges ahead. The crisis of failure; when you fail, there is also the hope of success. This mainly depends on how we face success and failure. Didn't Gou Jian, the leader of Yue, capture the state of Wu after suffering hardships? Edison, who had obtained more than a thousand invention patents, was both a winner and a loser. It took him ten years and more than 50,000 failures to create the world's first electric light. British physicist William Thomson once said: "I have struggled for fifty-five years and been committed to the development of science. One word can describe the characteristics of my most difficult work. This word is failure." In fact, this kind of Isn't failure in struggle the ladder for all successful people to reach the top? Therefore, we should view failure and success correctly.
Don't be pessimistic or discouraged when facing failure. Start over, find the right method, and strive for success. When facing success, don't be proud and complacent or forget about it. Sum up your successful experience to meet the next challenge.
Failure is the mother of success. If you want to succeed, you must first learn to fail. As long as you keep knocking on the door, the door to success will always open. Failure is often the prelude to success. As long as we face it normally, we will shake hands with success one day. In fact, the biggest failure in life is not failure, but bowing in the face of failure