It boils down to a mindset of how
you think about failure and what you think the purpose of failure really is.
When I launched CamcorderInfo.com as a young teenager, I didn't stop to
think about failure.
«When we have to
think about our failures - that puts us in a negative mood and research has shown that when people are in a negative mood state, they tend to indulge to make themselves feel better,» lead author Hristina Nikolova explained.
«He gave me the gift of retraining
my thinking about failure,» she explained.
The irony is that so many pastors
think about failure, but so few have spaces to talk openly and courageously about it.
When
I think about the failure and the falling inherent in being a beginner, a young girl appears to me.
The pessimist always
thinks about failure.
Failing to Levitate is a platform to
think about failure and vulnerability in art practices that are based in the social, in the encounter between people.
«I never
think about failure,» Koons told the crowd at FLAG, where several of his sculptural pieces are on view through May 14 as part of Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray.
Many people acquire their destructive thought patterns during childhood and automatically think in damaging ways without questioning the validity of their inner voice when negative
thoughts about failure or perceived inadequacies arise.
Not exact matches
In 2012, TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie called
failure «an inevitable part of
thinking big and going after what you're really passionate
about.»
«However, I would like it on the record — as an expert who has
thought about these issues nearly every working hour over the last four years — that I'm convinced that without the SPV and 12g fixes, retail investors will be heavily disadvantaged as compared to accredited investors and equity crowdfunding will ultimately be seen as a
failure.
It is a waste of what should be valuable resources to you and it is a
failure on your part to push yourself to really
think about the long - term issues you're facing.
But whatever the mechanism, the bottom line is that if your brain is a bit frazzled from fear of
failure or previous setbacks of any kind, simply taking a few minutes to
think (or write)
about past successes before you tackle any cognitively demanding task is likely to help your brain perform at its peak.
As we scale, I
think about things with a 10X mindset, laid out by Grant Cardone in his book The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and
Failure.
Gallagher
thinks Facebook's
failure not only helped Snap's ability to recruit and improved the company's reputation with the media, it also revealed that Facebook was out of touch
about why Snapchat was so popular to begin with.
The song was actually written
about Thanksgiving — and was
thought to be a total
failure when first published.
«I don't
think we talk
about failure enough,» Rowling told Matt Lauer on NBC's «Today» show.
Hopefully having a good wallow, really
thinking about your feelings and showing yourself some compassion (sadly, there's no word from Gilbertson on whether that can come in the form of chocolate fudge brownie icecream) should help ease your fear of
failure going forward, but Gilbertson suggests that you take things slowly as you move on from a disappointment.
«I don't want people to
think about trying new ideas and having them not work out as a
failure,» said CEO Chris Mittelstaedt.
I'll go with Jacques - René here: if you don't
think the Official Languages Act is good policy, why just not call for its repeal instead of tip - toeing around the issue and making excuses
about English Canada's
failure to adapt?
[1:20] How the kindness of a stranger changed Tony's life [3:35] Peter Diamandis talks
about the origins of X Prize [6:30] Technology helping the agricultural industry [7:00] Sequencing genomes [8:55] Life - work integration [11:15] Finding your highest calling in life [12:00] Reframing what is «impossible» [14:00] Strategy vs. psychology [15:00] Changing your state [16:00] The science of achievement, the art of fulfillment [19:00] Living in a beautiful state [24:00]
Thinking 10x bigger [28:00] Surrounding yourself with a «nothing is impossible» community [29:00] The news pollutes your mind [31:00] Tony's natural gifts and core beliefs [33:30] Overcoming
failure and criticism [37:45] Defining your environment [40:00] Life happens for you, not to you [42:00] Rituals and practices to up your game [46:30] Tony's priming process
If the only news you got
about the latest WTO
failure came from the business press, you would
think that it was a major blow to the poor.
The reasons we procrastinate range from not being clear
about what to do, being afraid of
failure (and even success), not believing in yourself, and spending too much time
thinking about what could go wrong.
I have
thought about this story countless times over the years and only recently applied it to my business, but it has given me perspective on many of my successes and
failures over the years.
I
think you're going to see some
failure like you talk
about because there is less regulation, but I
think you're also going to see some amazing innovation.
For all those reasons, it is a remarkable
failure not only that Canada's mining machinery industry remains underdeveloped, capable of meeting only a small portion of the mining industry's needs in Canada (let alone globally)-- but, worse yet, that Canadian governments haven't even seriously
thought about how to translate our growing resource extraction industry into a larger domestic mining machinery capbility. We've never seriously tried to make those connections. Which explains why the vast majority of the sophisticated, expensive, high - tech equipment used in our mines is imported.Â
And so while we have dug into the data behind startups that have died (as well as those acqui - hired) and found they usually die 20 months after raising financing and after having raised
about $ 1.3 million, we
thought it would be useful to see how startup founders and investors describe their
failures.
I
think that there will be some initial tears for those who have not recognised the harm they have done to others in this life and before everlasting joy is granted our unrepented sins (ie the
failure to recognise, admit and change our minds
about our weaknesses that hurt others I this life) are laid bare and the full depravity of our own soul is known to us.
My wigs were a
failure at first because I had never spent a moment
thinking about hair.
I
think that knowing what we do
about what often happens to the brain as the person begins the final
failures common in the dying process, it is likely that Darwin could have been coaxed into denying, by friends, and family, or even just frightened himself.
Now if the Bible could be so wrong
about a clear ethical
failure of slavery, what makes anyone
think it has anything to say
about sexual orientation or women's rights?
You don't know what theories are in a scientific context, you make an argument equivalent to «people can't take strides greater than ten feet, therefore it's impossible to run a marathon,» and you
think that the lack of a full understanding
about a particular hypothetical explanation is some kind of demonstration that science is an abject
failure.
Indeed, it is not, and the
failure of Christians to
think seriously
about the options is an abrogation of our responsibility to the poor.
So when news broke today
about Target's abject and utter
failure to expand into Canada, I began to
think this morning
about how church planters to Canada (or even within Canada) can learn from the Target
failure.
And when one is despondent
about one's own St. John's - by - the - Sea, one can turn again and again from that congregation and its apparent
failure to the great fellowship through the ages and find in the
thought of that fellowship a cordial for drooping spirits.
There are a few main explanations: 1) long term
failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to
think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.
He protested
about the fashion in which those who proclaim the gospel often spend most of their time in stimulating an artificial sense of utter
failure and sinfulness, so that then those preachers could declare that after all God still cares for such miserable wretches as he has induced his hearers to
think themselves to be.
«For Christians, in particular, this is a serious
failure: we are in danger of not
thinking about what is involved in our belief that we are made in God's image, made for creative engagement in the lives of others that will build them up as they build us up.
I find all this, after
thinking about it for some seventy years, almost ludicrous in its begging of questions and
failure to make coherent sense.
Every one has a bad conscience whenever he
thinks about God, for we know quite well what God wants of us, and our own
failure to do what He demands.
And I just started really
thinking about what are the characteristics of people who never settle, of people who, somehow, have the internal resilience to overcome a lot of
failure, a lot of disappointment, a lot of difficulties?
Think about this for a moment: Would anyone in their right mind trust an ER doctor to properly palliate the pain of terminal cancer or treat lethal congestive heart
failure?
Thus, the difficulty has been that in much philosophical
thought, with its influence upon other ways of
thinking and also upon our ways of acting as humans, there has been a
failure to grasp adequately the peril of talk
about individuals and equally
about substance.
@ mama k: while science may explore & attempt to understand what can be known
about the physical universe, it's a
failure to understand the very definition of metaphysics to
think that somehow leads into a «God of the gaps» scenario.
Actually, now that I
think about it I do wonder if the «
failures» to set are because of not grinding the almonds finely enough.
Oh gosh how much I loved this post; your words &
thoughts about life and
failure; these photos; this recipe.
I
think when I started the blog, I didn't want people to know
about my recipe
failures because I
thought I would lose my credibility.
I
think I got a bit discouraged by some
failures: the first broccoli head ended up flowering, my zucchini plant produced squash that only grew to
about three inches and then shriveled up, and there are still no peppers on my bell pepper plant.
now to the topic: yeah i get what you mean a fan shouldnt
think of the club as a brand but if fans
think about the manager or player of a club they should and have to consider them as humans / workers of a brand just because we love the club its not right to bash blame and insult them because of
failure, what we can do is demand change, expressing our disliking and / or criticising them constructively but insulting and offending them is a no - go.