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Like I know this guy that failed 2 years in his medical school. He never went to class like a waste man
and next thing he becomes really successful and establishes his own clinic, drives a Bentley.
He’s overtaken everyone
People who do the greatest things have many failures along the way - that's true - but "many failures" is not the same thing "failing the most."
Let's look at Elon Musk - likely the best example of a man who has had more accomplishments in the last 100 years than any other. Elon currently runs Tesla and SpaceX. Both Tesla and SpaceX have had many failures, but both companies also made 10,000 correct decisions for every 1 mistake that made it into the process. Tesla's and SpaceX's mistakes are the result of doing things in new ways and moving forward at an extremely rapid pace, all while controlling costs as much as possible.
Contrast Tesla to GM, for example. The "smart money" was that GM, with 100 years in the car business, would easily and handily have an easier time doing a better job in moving to electric cars than Tesla, which started with zero car experience. Except what actually happened is that GM made FAR more mistakes than Tesla did, and is currently about a decade behind Tesla and the distance continues to increase.
Similarly, SpaceX got laughed at by NASA and by other commercial and start-up rocket companies when they announced their goals. Today, SpaceX is by far the most economical launch company, is the only American way to get people and supplies to and from the ISS, and is developing ultra-heavy-lift rockets far more powerful than the Saturn V at a fraction of the cost. Hell, their rockets literally fly themselves back to base and land themselves, so they can be re-used.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/sf4qRY3h_eoEven though both companies have made plenty of mistakes and had plenty of failures, they still had far fewer failures than other companies, and were therefore able to make massive and rapid progress while simultaneously lowering costs - something no other car company or rocket company has been able to do. Neither company had the MOST failures - they had the fewest failures relative to the amount of progress they were making. But in raw numbers, there were a lot of failures, big and small along the way.
So, yes, progress means SOME failures are inevitable, but if you are making the MOST failures, you are almost certainly doing something wrong.
No. I've failed a lot of times in my life. You don't see me as US president or a billionaire. And while it's true that women are far more setup to be fail-proof in society, especially low IQ, liberal First World white women (feminists), even lots of them are failures in life who never fail upwards, either. I honestly believe most success stories are about 75-85% pure luck.
Lots of smart and innovate people (again, like myself) also don't succeed either due to not having the right connections, knowing the right people, or having the proper opportunities. For example, I want to make the first real dating and social networking app here in Korea, where there pretty much are no dating apps right now. But it'd be better than the few scam and bot apps they do have in the market. But I don't have access to investors or tech people, nor can I find these resources online, especially not being fluent in the local language. So my $50 million dollar idea remains just that: an idea.
Success or failure, is mostly due to luck and opportunity, not persistence and learning from past mistakes, in my opinion.
No, because if you are failing the MOST, then you are constantly failing. You can't become successful if you are the biggest failure. That is what I would take as failing the most.
Now, that doesn't mean that you cannot fail, learn from those failures and not repeat them again. Everyone fails from time to time. It is how you learn from those experiences that is the important part.
If you are one that doesn't get down on yourself but instead studies and understands why you have failed, you can turn it into a positive, instead of a negative. Those who keep repeating the failures are not most likely to make it big.
That could only happen with luck. Again, I don't know how people that fail all the time are going to be the biggest successes. The example you use is pretty thin. How this guy failed med school and then is licensed to operate a clinic is beyond me.
Not somewhere I would want to find myself.
There's a saying that goes something like, "If you never fail, you're not pushing yourself hard enough", meaning people who never fail might be playing it too safe. I don't think it's a guarantee, or even more likely, that someone who fails many times will make it big. But I do think people who make it big are the ones who push themselves and take chances. Yes, they're more likely to fail, but they're also more likely to eventually succeed than people who don't ever take risks.
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No. Success is mostly due to luck. Unfortunately the successful are usually too vain to see their good fortune. Most of the time they caught a really big break along the way, then that led into something else, and then that got them noticed a little more, and that led into something even bigger.
There was an interesting radio show on back in the day called “How I Made My Millions” where they interviewed someone who become super successful about their business and how they did it. Every single one of them had a big break, a stroke of luck, and people helping them, giving them money, funding them, etc.
FUBU really was wild though. For some reason Samsung of all companies decided to invest in his clothing company after his mom convinced him to take out an ad for investors in a newspaper. Before that he was making shirts in his mom’s home, which she mortgaged to help keep his company afloat because it wasn’t going anywhere.
A sudden stroke of unexpected luck, from a Korean international electronics company that had money to burn on a clothing company for investing.
And he really thinks he made it with hard work and grit. 🙄
😂
I mean being too risk averse won't do you good. You only learn when you fail. You only fail if you try.
It's how you fix a car or build something new. You need some risk tolerance to attempt these things.
But people, especially businesspeople and public speakers, overemphasize risk. So let me put it in the form of a headline.
"Man who wins $200 million at a casino publishes a book recommending gambling as a financial strategy. No other players can afford to publish theirs."
It's called "survivorship bias". And it tends to plague finance and business.
Thing is it's the nature of the failure. If you never make an effort (don't go to class, whatever) then the failure can't have benefitted you as there are no lessons to learn from doing nothing. If you tried your best and learned lessons about what did and didn't work along the way that's different.
This sort of smells of the "daddy's money" or "I know a guy" type thing.
Also remember, if you already have money it will be very easy to try over and over with little pressure.
Trump started with $400 million or so of daddy's money and STILL had 6 bankruptcies and was a walking joke before he did the apprentice.
Elon Musk's daddy had an emerald mine and was wealthy (also South African)
If you fail because of lazy and end up succeeding there's almost certainly something very rotten going on.
Nope. That said, to become financially successful you typically have to take financial risks. Even when the odds favor you and you take calculate financial risks, there is still opportunity for failure. Nothing is 100% guaranteed to work. Thus financially successful people will have failures in their past, because they tried risky things. If you never try, you never fail. If you fail constantly, you never get anywhere. You have to win more than you lose to succeed.
It's important to know one thing: EVERYONE makes mistakes! EVERYONE falls down, some a few times, some many times! The important thing is getting up again! We cannot avoid mistakes in life; the important thing is learning from them and learning how not to repeat them. Those who fail several times, or even many times, if they learn something from the experience, may have an advantage over those who have not had the opportunity to learn from failure. So, yes, I think there is a pattern here.
If they are tough, yes !! I think Trump went bankrupt twice. I know once ‼️ Character development from failure is where the gains are made. We grow little when successful 🤷🏻♂️
Yes, but only if you are failing at a goal and keep failing at it until you succeed.
Most people fail then quit and try something else and fail at that, and those people won't likely be successful because they aren't learning from their failures to retry.
The rules are if you want to stay a safe corporate drone. I started to get successful when I learned to start telling people to "go get f***ed". I'm not saying that's the recipe for success by the moral of the story is nobody respects a pushover.
do you realize that if you fail in med school, you can get out of the program and you will never be allowed back in?
he likely didn't fail. he just didn't do as well as he wanted.
Sometimes this is true but not always. Like there was a lawyer my mom’s friend knew who failed the bar exam 14 times and now he’s really successful.
I don't think it is a guarantee that they will then succeed in other areas
Lazy people are not likely to become successful. For every one that does there are thousands that do not.
These are the exception rather than the rule. When these type of people rise above others there's usually something dodgy going on.
No, but they're surely more likely to attempt suicide.
Most people know when they fail they're at the bottom and they go nowhere but up. And yes your answer is they make the best successful people.
Failing constantly makes me wanna kms ngl
As long as they keep getting back up.
Not always
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