Brain Breach

What could the benefit be with being able to get over and assessing our failures quickly, and handling our success with emotional intelligence?  Failures wouldn’t be devastating, but just lessons strongly learned.  Success wouldn’t ruin us and our kids, like we see so often, but simply spice our lives a bit.

Consider your success and failure not as a state you are in, but as events that are happening to you. Certainly you have much control over these events, but not complete.

There is an important reason to taking this angle.  Your monetary success can’t bring ultimate fulfillment, and your failures shouldn’t be allowed to bring you ultimately down.  Success and failure should not be considered states that you are in or out of.  Being “in” failure implies a few things that might not be true:  You are a failure; you fail more often than others; you have lost.  Likewise, being in “success” implies some things that shouldn’t be considered true: You job is now finished; sit around; you have arrived.
Success and failure happen to you, they are not you.  React to them as you do with other things that happen to you, and fix them.

Thanks to Lawson for Sparking this idea.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 and is filed under Theory, some decent info for sure.