The Truth About Success that Nobody Wants to Hear

Failure is one of the pillars of success.

Ishmael DLC
2 min readDec 7, 2021
Photo by Seth Doyle on Unsplash

Most people love to hear overnight successes. But, sadly, they don’t want to hear the sacrifices, challenges, and roadblocks that came by. They don’t want to find out the nitty-gritty, mundane and cumbersome work. All they want to hear is the last chapter of the story.

Success is a leap of faith, and there are no guarantees. It’s a learning process. And you have to take things one day at a time. You fall, you pick up yourself, you learn, and you move on.

Failure is not the opposite of success because there is no success without failure. Success is not about winning or losing. Instead, it’s all about keeping up or giving up.

Success is all about becoming. Your goal is just a guide to tell you where you are headed. But to achieve it, you have to become that person who deserves it.

You need to learn the skills, meet the right people, use the right tools, and have the proper mindset. And once you have reached your goal, it’s no longer what you have achieved that matters, rather what matters is what you have become.

Failure is a necessary component to achieve success. It simply means that the people who didn’t support you, your challenges, frustrations, lack of motivation, and hardships were all part of the failures that made you move on. And it’s because of them you tried one more time and finally succeeded.

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Ishmael DLC

Loving father, and sweet husband. I have a day job and run a small business. I write on the side.