Failure :)

It's been a pretty quiet month for me. A lot of grind, but not much shine. So I don't really have too much to talk about. So, I figured I'd take the easy way out and post a video.

The video is from a site called Bluefish TV, a site dedicated to promoting christian missions around the world. I can't really say that I know too much about the organization behind it, or, to be brutally honest, care. What I do care about is the message of the video.  The video offers a quick list of some historical figures and describes their greatest failures.  I can't say this is really much of a surprise.  Pretty much every example of success I've ever heard of has been preceded and influenced by a great failure.  This includes pretty much all of the biographies I read as a teenager, such as Malcolm X going to jail only to find out about the Nation of Islam.  Or weightlifters lifting to failure with the intent of ripping muscle tissue to have it grow back larger.  To stress testing servers in a lab so that you know when and how they'll fail so the won't in production.  To Traf-O-Data being only a moderate success, but ultimately being the learning experience that taught Allen and Gates how start Microsoft.  Put more succintly:


"You have to give yourself permission to fail so you can to give yourself permission to succeed." 
- Lisa Nichols

I found the video motivational and a good reminder that the path to personal success is anything but linear. Anyway, enjoy the video!