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AVERAGE MENTALITY

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. -Marcus Tullius Cicero


This is the law of averages; the more you fail, the greater your chance of succeeding. Failure is often the first necessary step toward success. And if you don’t take the risk of failing, you won't get the chance to succeed. When you are trying, you are winning. 


 Many a one has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. The truth is that you are not judged by the number of times you fail, but by the number of times you succeed; and the number of times you succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times you can fail and keep on trying. Any one of them could change the course of his life overnight. What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to do something better. We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. 



We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably, he, who never made a mistake never made a discovery. It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures.... Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. “Would you like me to give you a formula for...success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all...You can be discouraged by failure- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes.”

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