“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.” –Sumner Redstone
We make the biggest changes, the most meaningful changes, when we suffer from something being broken. If everything was going well, or if there wasn’t enough pain that we had to experience, chances are that we would continue with the status quo. It’s easier not to change. It’s less scary to deal with the known, even if we know that there has to be a easier way to get a consistently better result.
This is exactly what Sumner refers to in the above quote. When you’ve finally had your “I’ve had it moment” and get mad about the results that aren’t meeting your standards, you will make a change. It is the changes made from your frustrations and failures that can lead to your greatest success.
Make sure to put everything into perspective. If you didn’t go through those hardships, if you didn’t have to overcome those trials and tribulations, you would probably just be coasting through life. Build your foundation on the failures that you have learned from and overcome. That is how success is made.