Don't be afraid of failure - How to create the right mindset for success

When failure is highlighted in stories...it is mostly described as part of an ultimate success. When you fail...and that failure discourages you from some bigger goal...nobody will remember that failure except you. Overcome a failure as part of a great success...that failure becomes such a vital part of the success story...even to the point that many times that success would not have happened without it.

I love this excerpt below from a Success Magazine Post about success and failure. Please read and comment on some failure that you have overcome in an ultimate success.

The sweetest victory is the one that’s most difficult. The one that requires you to reach down deep inside, to fight with everything you’ve got, to be willing to leave everything out there on the battlefield—without knowing, until that do-or-die moment, if your heroic effort will be enough. Society doesn’t reward defeat, and you won’t find many failures documented in history books. 

The exceptions are those failures that become steppingstones to later success. Such is the case with Thomas Edison, whose most memorable invention was the light bulb, which purportedly took him 1,000 tries before he developed a successful prototype. “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” a reporter asked. “I didn’t fail 1,000 times,” Edison responded. “The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” 

Unlike Edison, many of us avoid the prospect of failure. In fact, we’re so focused on not failing that we don’t aim for success, settling instead for a life of mediocrity.

Robert Kiyosaki educates people on managing money and has written multiple books about the differences between what rich dads teach their kids vs what poor dads teach their kids.