Failure is just experience on the way to success

Failure gets a bad rap. It is actually an important element of success. When I speak at conferences around the world I say "In America we don’t use the word failure…we call it experience". You learn far more from failure than you do from success. And those lessons from failure are what prepares you for success.

At Google we say "achieving 65% of the impossible is better than 100% of the ordinary". At many companies achieving 65% of your goals would result in getting fired. At Google if you achieve over 85% of your goals you are clearly not aiming high enough, and will be encouraged to be more aggressive. Think about the trajectory required to hit a target 100 feet of the ground versus a target 1,000 feet off the ground. The point is that by aiming high, even if you miss, you will be in a much better position than if you aimed at modest goals.

Don Dodge

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