his due diligence and it was time to put up or shut up, he told us this story.
Every time he was afraid of making a mistake or losing money, he told us
this story. It gave him strength, for it reminded him that he could always
turn a financial loss into a financial win. Rich dad knew that failure would
only make him stronger and smarter. It’s not that he wanted to lose. He just
knew who he was and how he would take a loss. He would take a loss and
make it a win. That’s what made him a winner and others losers. It gave
him the courage to cross the line when others backed out. “That’s why I like
Texans so much,” he would say. “They took a great failure and turned it into
inspiration… as well a tourist destination that makes them millions.”
But probably his words that mean the most to me today are these:
“Texans don’t bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take
their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to
become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is
the formula for all winners.”
I’ve said that falling off my bike was part of learning to ride. I
remember falling off only made me more determined to learn to ride, not
less. I also said that I have never met a golfer who has never lost a ball. For
top professional golfers, losing a ball or a tournament provides the
inspiration to be better, to practice harder, to study more. That’s what makes
them better. For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats
them.
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