If you are not careful, one of the most important lessons of success may pass you by. Many people go from success to success not gaining any insight or growth from their experiences. With this type of success this person, Will never know how to succeed. It is better to try, and fail. So that you will learn in order to try again!
Over the weekend, my son and I made an attempt at building a box with dovetail joint! Knowing I could only hold my son’s attention no more than a few moments, I let him run the router. We carefully pushed each board through the router, until we were complete, making adjustments for the male and female ends of the joint. When the dust cleared (literally, because I forgot to turn the vacuum on), we had made our box. The dovetail joints however, were so out of alignment that we could not help but call the experience an epic failure. We tried again, and got a littler closer but we still did not get the joints successfully aligned. Eventually I lost his attention and he was on to other things. In this one session, although we didn’t make sour dovetail jointed box. We did learn how not to make it. Knowledge that we will use on our next attempt.
Even when writing this blog post. I must have rewritten it more than 5 times before I felt it was good enough to send out. Remember our successes build our confidence but, we learn from our mistakes. As you read and become familiar with the passage below, keep in mind that failure from trying will lead you to even greater success.
Passage from Robert Greene Mastery
Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and suck timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done. In fact, it is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt. You will fail to question the element of luck, making you think that you have the golden touch. When you do inevitably fail, it will confuse and demoralize you past the point of learning. In any case, … you must act on your ideas as early as possible, exposing them to the public, a part of you even hoping that you’ll fail. You have everything to gain.”
What have you failed at lately? What was the outcome when you tried again?
Corey Stokes 
Failure is an excellent teacher, and motivator as long as you do it often. You can fail as many times as it takes; you only need to succeed once!
If you don’t try, You Lose.
We live in a world where everyone wants to be perfect. We want to look perfect, be perfect, do things perfectly. We all must remember that we learn through our mistakes and if we see those not so much as a bad thing; something tarnished or as a blemish, but see our mistakes as a lesson and our teacher, we will feel a little better for having tried in the first place.