In Life, Things Are Written, Erased And Rewritten
There are many stories that are just like Walt Disney. Each of us has had a moment of failure when we have had to change direction and start over. Success, failure, and learning are part of our daily lives. They are the foundation that makes us grow as humans. That is why in life we write, we wipe it away and we write again.
What it means to succeed in life
What does success mean to you? Is it that you are happy in your life? Is it that you feel good about yourself and others? That there is money and success? That there is a family, a partner or children? Traveling around the world? That is work and health?
No matter what success means to you, understanding what success is for you can give you more confidence and push you to stay on the move, as well as make you happy. Elsa Punset, daughter of author and philosopher Eduardo Punsett, calls this the winning effect.
When you feel like you are a winner, dopamine is released in your brain and it makes you feel better and prepared, which in turn allows you to strive at full power and achieve the goal you are striving for. In other words, it is that it is successful, will lead to greater success. This is a chain reaction.
Learning from mistakes
To see how success and failure work, we tell you an interesting fact: according to some estimates, 90% of products that come on the market fail. So failure is no exception, it is the general truth. Nevertheless, failure is generally not acceptable.
The knowledge that failure is so common should make us think about how to live with failures in a more natural way. Psychologist Carol Dweck combines the way we view failure with our perception of talent.
There is an approach that understands that talent is something innate. Thus, you are either born talented or you are not, and neither is there any more. However, a different approach understands that talent develops on the basis of determination and as a result of the effort to achieve what is desired.
People in the first group face challenges in the habit of showing off their innate gifts and believe that failure means they don’t have enough ability or skill. For this reason, they are afraid of failures and cannot tolerate the idea that they will not achieve success.
On the other hand, people who believe that a skill develops with failures see them as evidence that they are trying and see it as a positive thing. Failure is a way to become stronger and better. If you fail, you will not get better.
Learning from mistakes and taking risks in life requires great courage. Not everything is going to always go down the pipe. We will experience many failures, but our real success will be learning, maturing and growing. Think about what makes you happy, what puts a smile on your face and aims towards it.
Emotional intelligence and success
In his book Emotional Intelligence (published in 1995), Daniel Goleman refers to many studies, one of which examines the lives of young people who scored very high on an intelligence test.
Studies compared the levels of satisfaction of these young people in different areas, such as happiness, reputation, and job success, and this proved that intelligence explains only 20% of the factors that determine success.
The remaining 80% depends on changing factors such as happiness, social class and, above all, emotional intelligence. So self-motivation, the ability to persevere, mood management, and empathy are more determining factors than intelligence.
