There is really nothing quite like failure as a motivator. As Samuel Beckett once said “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Today I was disappointed that something didn’t go my way which I had fully expected to go my way. In moments that disappointed turned into a fire under my tail.
I was determined that I would get something to succeed, if for no other reason than to make myself feel better. So I got to work tackling a daunting computer programming problem that I had been putting off.
Sure enough, I got it working. And I probably never could have done it without having a good and proper failure under my belt.
Maybe there is some sort of law of conservation of failure. When something doesn’t work out, it just motivates us to try harder to accomplish something else.