Comments on: How Many Failures Are You Willing To Endure?

By: Making Life Work for You

Making Life Work for You — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:56:38 +0000

Not liking the Plan B…

Let me start today by explaining that I don’t think “failure” is a bad word. To me, it means, “I stretched and pulled a muscle. Better warm up, prepare, train, and try harder the next time.”
The bad words are

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By: Brad Isaac - Goal Setting Genius « Nice4Rice

Brad Isaac - Goal Setting Genius « Nice4Rice — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:31:02 +0000

[...] How Many Failures Are You Willing To Endure? When Edison was asked if he would give up after ‘failing’ 700 times to create the filament for the light bulb, he responded that he did not fail, but instead discovered 700 ways that didn’t work. [...]

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:03:55 +0000

Thanks all for your comments and support. I think I’ve got it working now. Now for some internal testing. If all goes well I’ll post a public beta this week.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:42:39 +0000

Great post. If only we have the same persistence as Edison’s, our lives will surely have a different path, a path which leads to sure success.

By: Carolyn Manning

Carolyn Manning — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:25:52 +0000

With that unlimited persistence, of course you’ll finish it and have it working perfectly, no matter how many tries or hours it takes.

And someone should tell that upper-level management type that sometimes we make more sense when we keep out mouths shut.

I’ve only lurked here before, but now you’ve gotten my curiosity up and this might have to be a regular stop.

By: B. Riley

B. Riley — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:21:58 +0000

It is refreshing to read this on a blog with the URL “Persistenceunlimited”.

Way to hang in there Brad! Can’t wait to try the new product!

By: April Groves

April Groves — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:11:59 +0000

Reading your post, “Learn to pick your battles,” came to mind. Sounds like you have picked yours and I wish you the best of outcomes (we attribute much success to “luck” when we have obviously worked so hard.)

Great point about stretching yourself. So much of our potential is unrealized because we refuse to think that we can “go big.”