Falling and picking yourself back up stronger than before
In 1999 NASA arguably made one of its most costly mistakes, over one of the tiniest of errors. NASA lost the 125 million-dollar (US) Mars Climate Orbiter satellite due to NASA employees mixing up the conversion of imperial and metric units. Despite this catastrophic failure NASA would go on to perform three more successful missions to mars after the Mars Climate Orbiter failure.
Whilst most people haven’t made a 125 million-dollar mistake, what this story illustrates is that even the geniuses who work at NASA can fail, and from that failure they learnt going on to launch three more successful missions to Mars after deciding only to use metric units for calculations.
Now it may seem counter intuitive to state that there is success in failure. Failure by its very definition means that you have not achieved a task. While this statement has some truth, the reality is that, if a person wishes to become a professional in something, they need to make mistakes within that field, or as Winston Churchill colourfully stated:
"If you are going through hell, keep going"
Knowing that one can only become truly successful through failure thus raises the question. How does an Individual turn Failure into success?
