There are probably as many examples of failure as there are of success. In all the tales we hear of the countless failures of one inventor or a great novelist. Ultimately they stuck it out and succeeded. If one path is blocked, be creative and find away to the next path. Today’s Journal JuJu in Jill Badonsky’s The Awe-Manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder has writers contemplating failure.
“Write about how your failure in one thing may have led to discovery in another.”
That’s easy for me. I was itching to go to law school (during the heat of the “L.A. Law” craze). I applied. I failed to get in…to ANY of the dozen schools I applied to. While it was hard to swallow at the time, I’m certainly glad I didn’t get in. Even though I still believe I would have made a good lawyer, the failure to get in left me open to all sorts of other experiences and during the time some of my college classmates were studying in law schools, I was living overseas teaching English. My move was a life-changing experience.
When has your failure led to a success?
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