DOUBLE YOUR FAILURE RATE
A number of years ago, an aspiring writer interviewed Thomas J. Watson, the President of IBM. Watson gave him this advice: “would you like me to give you a formula for writing success, it’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure”
“You are making a common mistake. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. Failure is a teacher - a harsh one perhaps, but the best. You say you have a desk full of rejected manuscripts? That’s great! Every one of those manuscripts was rejected for a reason. Have you pilled them to pieces looking for that reason?
You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So, go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find sucess. On the far side of failure”
