The other evening I took my family out to one of our favorite Italian restaurants. My wife received a gift card so we took advantage of a free night out. During the course of our meal one of the waiters dropped a glass on the concrete floor, shattering it into a thousand pieces. \u00a0The sound was startling and unmistakable. \u00a0It took us all by surprise.\u00a0But what happened next was equally surprising: \u00a0the staff applauded the incident.<\/p>\n
The experience brought me back to an important principle I need to remember more often: \u00a0Celebrate failure<\/em>.<\/p>\n It was Thomas Edison who famously said, \u201cI have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.\u201d \u00a0Regardless of how he spun it, Edison would not have become the inventor he was had he not seized the opportunities to learn from his failures.<\/p>\n Celebrating failure can bring these benefits:<\/p>\n What about you? \u00a0What failures have you celebrated lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The other evening I took my family out to one of our favorite Italian restaurants. My wife received a gift card so we took advantage of a free night out. During the course of our meal one of the waiters dropped a glass on the concrete floor, shattering it into a thousand pieces. \u00a0The sound was startling and unmistakable. \u00a0It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[312,313,314,315],"class_list":["post-24905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lead","tag-burnout","tag-celebrating-failure","tag-mistakes-2","tag-tim-nations"],"yoast_head":"\n\n