We all live; but one thing he forgot is “anywhere in the world, a baby falls on average 200 times before he/she learns to walk.”(the number is not that important actually)
I have read many books on success and the secrets of success, watched movies, and attended trainings organized by the workplace. None of them had the effect of this sentence in my body. People sometimes
I’m thinking about my life, except I guess learning to walk; I’ve never tried any action I’ve decided to take long enough to fail 200 times.
So what do the people around a baby do when learning to walk? She supports the baby with all her might, enthusiastically picking it up whenever it falls to the ground, encouraging the hopped to try again.
No baby will ever stop trying to walk unless they have a physical disability, and all without exception succeed. For a creature that could not even sit down when it was born, walking in a balanced manner on its two feet is a more difficult act than winning the university entrance exam or getting a promotion at work.
Falling is not only a feeling of failure, but it also hurts physically. If I say fall on your butt 20 times right now, you’ll stop falling on the 4th. We are people who can repent to love again, even after experiencing the pain of love once. What if babies let go too and somehow believe they can’t walk? Don’t we convince ourselves of this in most things?
How much does our environment support us in the actions we decide to take after we reach the childhood stage? What would be the result of those actions if they supported walking as much as they did when they were babies?
Sometimes, don’t people talk negatively, even at the decision stage, just for the sake of giving up? The simplest thing is that you say “I will do sports every day”, or “You come late from work, you are lazy in the cold weather” and there may be a ton of negative sentences. Sometimes just their looks are enough… Families don’t show the patience they show you during the walking phase for any of your failed actions.
As we grow up, we forget the “secrets of success” that we knew very well from the very beginning. We struggle to learn again. Millions of people in the world will die without ever being able to learn again, and they will have done jobs and hobbies far below their capacity…
Maybe the biggest reason for the family and the environment to encourage walking; the fact that they have passed that way and succeeded, and they know that if they try, the baby can succeed too. That’s why they try to carry it out by holding their hand. In other decisions in life, since they do not have such experience, they approach with the suspicion of “I guess it will not happen, let it go” in two failures. After making a decision, if we try 200 times without paying attention to the environment and with the same determination, even we ourselves will be surprised at the result and experience a great discovery.
Maybe we should ask before giving up on something “Have I tried 200 times?”
Sometimes people want someone who says “You will succeed, don’t give up”. Keep trying, you will succeed, don’t give up!