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Johnny Rocco, in the popular Abundant Living magazine, has cited a similar incident of failure, but with an unimaginable twist in the tale. I reproduce: “In the Irish uprising of 1848, some men were captured, tried and convicted of treason against Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. All were sentenced to death. The death sentence triggered off a spate of protests across the nation, and passionate protest from all over the world persuaded the Queen to commute the death sentences. This moved the Queen, and death sentence was commuted, resulting in the men being banished to Australia, termed as remote and full of prisoners as Russian Siberia. Years passed. In 1874 Queen Victoria learned that a Sir Charles Duffy who had been elected Prime Minister of Australia was the same Charles Duffy who had been banished 26 years earlier. She asked what had become of the other eight convicts, and she learned that: 1. Patrick Donahue became a Brigadier General in the United States Army. 2. Morris Lyene became Attorney General for Australia. 3. Michael Ireland succeeded Lyene as Attorney General. 4. Thomas McGee became Minister of Agriculture for Canada. 5. Terrence McManus became a Brigadier General in the United States Army. 6. Thomas Meagher was elected Governor of Montana. 7. Richard O'Gorman became Governor of Newfoundland. 8. John Mitchell became a prominent New York politician and his son, John Purroy Mitchell, a famous Mayor of New York City.” Failures, apparently, have an immense potential to transform you, but only if you look at them squarely in the face. Then evaluate them. And then resolve them. It's a historical fact that Carl Linder, the 1919 winner of the Boston Marathon, was rejected for military service because of flat feet. Not finding a place in the military service is a good reason to dwell on your fate, but Linder probably thought where his flat feet would best fit in. He did and won. When you dwell on your failures, they swell within you. But when you brush them aside, and start afresh, your actions attain a new meaning, a new purpose, and a new zest and zeal. Success cannot be as thought-provoking as failures are. Your second success probably rests on the foundation of the first one, but a failure can rest on the proverbial cornerstone which the builders rejected. Failure is a duality. What may be a failure for you could be a success for the other. For a moment, you have to be the other to understand that failure is merely a stepping stone towards success. All men and women – whom we call successful now – have met the very harsh failures of their lives. Edison knew 1800 ways not to build a light bulb, before he knew one how to build it. If Edison had given up then, we would have lived in a perpetual darkness now. One of Madame Curie's failures was radium. Columbus thought he had discovered the East Indies. Freud had several big failures before he devised psychoanalysis. If he had given up then, we could not have had scientists whose inferences are derived from Freudian theories now. What may be your failure today, can be your incredible success tomorrow. But you only should have a knack and a resolve to overcome a failure. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough,” Og Mandino has remarked. Failure is, and should be a part of life, since with each failure you learn something. A Japanese proverb summarizes it : “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” Important Note: This is the first warm-up part of a two-part series on power of failures. The next one will be on failures as described by Vedas. Visit back. Wellness Wisdom Archive Author Interactive : Write to Sanjay Get Connected Promotional Support All Wellness Wisdom articles are copyrighted and reprint or distribution, electronic or otherwise, may please be done only after seeking the author's permission through the Reprint Request form below. |
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