<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="Early Jackson - motivational speaker &#038; author" title="Early Jackson" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/early-jackson-13.jpg" />We live in a society that keeps telling us we should be resisting anything that looks like failure. From childhood, failure is looked upon as the ultimate disaster. It has somehow grown to mean you have reached your limitation and that you have let yourself and others down. We cower in shame after those around us get wind that we have failed at something.</p>
<p>The cold hard reality is this; failure is not the end, it is the beginning. As you stumble across the threshold of failure you discover a brand new world filled with possibilities. The price for such admittance is to fail. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/03/success-lesson-the-great-value-of-failure/" title="Permanent Link: Success Lesson: The Great Value of Failure" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2150,"date":"2014-03-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2021-01-09T00:56:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T05:56:33","slug":"success-lesson-the-great-value-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/03\/success-lesson-the-great-value-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Lesson: The Great Value of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Early Jackson - motivational speaker &#038; author\" title=\"Early Jackson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/early-jackson-13.jpg\" \/>We live in a society that keeps telling us we should be resisting anything that looks like failure. From childhood, failure is looked upon as the ultimate disaster. It has somehow grown to mean you have reached your limitation and that you have let yourself and others down. We cower in shame after those around us get wind that we have failed at something.<\/p>\n<p>The cold hard reality is this; failure is not the end, it is the beginning. As you stumble across the threshold of failure you discover a brand new world filled with possibilities. The price for such admittance is to fail. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/03\/success-lesson-the-great-value-of-failure\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Success Lesson: The Great Value of Failure\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We live in a society that keeps telling us we should be resisting anything that looks like failure. 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