Learning from Failures

 Statistically, we should have just as many failures as we have successes...  assuming that our lives have been normally distributed whatever the hell that means....  of course, one must assume that one learns from one's failures and I suppose there is something to learn from our successes as well...  although oftentimes, success just happens and we are not sure why but everything just seems to click into place in those situations...

I have looked at the data for this blog and there might be 30+ hits on one day and the next 2 days, there is only a handful of hits...  is this an indication of successes and failures with what I post or just the normal cycle for my type of blog.  My stories, fillers, and opinions have not really changed.  There is nothing to learn from this data other than it is consistently inconsistent.  Therefore, it is not considered to be a success or a failure...  it is the middle of the bell shaped curved.

Successes and Failures are the two tails of the bell shaped curve and therefore don't happen much but they do happen.

Many people fail and use that failure as an indication that their lives are not ever going to get any better...  If you believe that and continue to believe that, then the odds are you will never succeed.

However, others take that failure and say FY, I am going to try again and again and again...  because I know that I am right...  eventually you will succeed...  but that road is not easy to walk and too many people quit...  but, those with the personality and the determination will eventually succeed and mentally benefit from that struggle.

During one of my first places of employment, I was directing and managing an arts council.  The idea was to create programs that would interest people attend the activity and pay a membership fee to keep these activities continuing.  I created several programs each month.  Some of these programs were successful others were not.  Some months were successful others were not.  I never gave up.

That single minded determination was helpful in my next job designing and selling training programs to industry...  I encountered the same results and that knowledge was useful in my next position where I was promoting a center for quality and productivity training.

Not everyone was interested in my ideas, but others were interested which allowed me to be successful...  However, if I had allowed the experiences from my first job to cloud my judgement and give up...  all those other things in my life would have never happened.