Most of us fear failure(失败). However, without failure, progress would be impossible. In fact, the word success comes from the Latin succedere, meaning "to come after." And what does success usually come after? Failure. It Seems that one cannot exist(存在) without the other.
About failure, the most important lesson we should learn is that every failure, even the worst one, helps us learn to do things differently in the future. "Learning from the past mistakes and making change helped me to reach the top of Everest successfully," says mountaineer Pete Athans, and he has now reached the world's highest peak(山峰) seven times.
Accepting failure is not easy for many, though. We are not willing to tell people that we am failures because our good name depends on success. However, things are slowly changing. The business world already understands the value of negative results. In fact, one of the business world's most famous failures became one of its biggest successes. In the early 1990s, Apple Corporation created the Apple Newton. It was one of Apple's biggest failures. However, Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, believed the product had potential(潜力) and he began to improve it. In time, this led to the creation of the iPhone and the iPad, two of the company's most successful products.
The story of the Apple Newton can teach us another important lesson about failure. There is a lot we can learn by studying mistakes. Perhaps we should all know that failure and success are two sides of the same coin. One truly cannot exist without the other.
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