I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison would have never invented the light bulb if he did not take this principle to heart. Edison failed more than 10,000 times before he found the filament that would create light for a sustained period of time. He did not view these as failures, however. On the 10,001 try to find a proper filament for the light bulb, Edison did not see himself has having failed 9,999 times. He reframed the situation so that to him he had successfully eliminated 9,999 possibilities, refining and narrowing his search as he proceeded, drawing him closer and closer to his goal. Thomas Edison is revered as one of the greatest inventors and businessman of all time look at what he did for the world. Also look at Henry Ford he failed and went broke 5 times before he made the Ford Motor Company a household name. Earlier today I came across an article that's the excerpt of a book looking at historical figures like Ford and Darwin to discover what made them who they were. The article, "Be Like Henry Ford: Apprentice Yourself In Failure", is an interesting read in itself. The point is Henry Ford didn't give up. He learned from his mistakes and used what he learned to become successful. From the article was this quote "There are two kinds of failure." The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done." Greene, R. (2012, November 8). Greene' s statement here makes it clear that you can fail and do nothing or you can fail and learn and move on and turn that failure in to success.