Failure and Life's True Success
Story★★★★tomorrow to have been a failure. I am often struck that so few rich people really enjoy the fortune they have amassed. They have succeeded in life, but they have not made a success of their lives.
Drawing from his own experience, Tournier gives an interesting illustration: I have given many lectures, and I do not deny that it gives me pleasure when the lecture goes well. One of my most vivid memories is of a lecture I gave many years ago, one of my worst failures. It was at a university. I felt right from the first word that I was not going to make contact with my audience.
I clung to my notes and laboriously recited, with growing nervousness, what I had to say. As the audience left I could see my friends slipping hurriedly away, to spare themselves and me the embarrassment of a meeting. On the way home in my car with my wife, I burst into tears. But the next day a professor of philosophy called me on the telephone.
He told me he had listened in his life to a large number of ���◊��� Heightened Resolve Failure always made me try harder next time. -MICHAEL JORDAN === ◊ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; remarkable lectures. . . . He had never heard one as bad as mine, he added, and this was what intngued him and made him want to see me. This incident was the beginning of a wonderful friendship between us. I was the witness of his conversion to the Christian faith, and that was the source of more lasting joy to me than could ever have been procured by success in delivering a lecture.
The point
Paul Tournier's worst lecture became opportunity for friendship and spiritual conversion, proving failure can become greater success than success itself.