Wear YOUR Failures Like Badges Of Honour!

Was swimming at the gym on Friday when this thought entered my mind:

Wear YOUR Failures Like Badges Of Honour!

For some reason I was thrown back to thinking about an overly-arrogant business owner from my younger days who signed over franchise rights to myself because he 'claimed' I had stated on my CV that I was a varsity graduate.

Finding that I was making a small fortune from my rights, he wanted to find a way to take the rights back.

Amusingly, right from my early days I was always quite proud of the fact that a matric failure could persevere and pass matric in the end, and make his way to varsity only to be found out in his second repeat year... and still go on to do the things that I did in business.

I didn't know then that failure was a great learning experience... but I just found it to be honest and a show of integrity to state in my CV that I had spent a few years trying to get out of matric... and that my varsity career was incomplete.

Besides, I was able to highlight my sporting achievements - representing SA Universities at my favourite sport.

Seems that Mr. Arrogant was trying to claim that he misinterpreted that to mean that I had claimed a varsity degree - and that I had there by misrepresented my CV to him. All bull, of course. At best, he read what he wanted to read... at worst, he was just trying to diddle someone out of a contract (and failed... ;-)

To cut a long story short, this self-same individual was later jailed for his part in +- R250 million investor-fraud scam. Sometimes what one perpetuates with a lack of integrity catches up with one.

And... I have always gone on to broadcast my many years of trying to get out of matric and playing around and not succeeding at varsity (of which I am not proud) as critical learning experiences for myself.

So, for me, there has never been any shame in trying something (especially something new or out of your comfort zone) and not succeeding.

As long as YOU do it with the integrity of giving it YOUR best shot.

So here's a thought to explore:

Wear YOUR Failures Like Badges Of Honour!

Found this on Google search: Failure as a Badge of Honor


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