How does a person grow during the low points in life? How can we take our setbacks and turn them into something great? What can we learn from our perceived failures? If there’s anything I’ve learned in all my 25 years, it’s how to use my darkest hours and lowest points in life to learn a lesson and eventually create a success.
To better understand where I’m coming from today, I want to open up with a quote from the late Randy Pausch:
"The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough".
It often takes something really disappointing, something really drastic to get us out of our comfort zone and onto a real journey through life. It’s like the old saying goes; “everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.”
It seems that everyone wishes to do something great or different but the major factor we all miss out on is our reaction to a setback. The way one perceives their failures will tell you a lot about the type of person they are. For some, failure means the end of the world. For others, it only means they learned how not to do something.
To better understand where I’m coming from today, I want to open up with a quote from the late Randy Pausch:
"The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough".
It often takes something really disappointing, something really drastic to get us out of our comfort zone and onto a real journey through life. It’s like the old saying goes; “everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.”
It seems that everyone wishes to do something great or different but the major factor we all miss out on is our reaction to a setback. The way one perceives their failures will tell you a lot about the type of person they are. For some, failure means the end of the world. For others, it only means they learned how not to do something.
