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Brock
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 Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:28 am Post subject: Magic in Mistakes |
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| Quote: | My real dad came from the world of academics, a world where mistakes are perceived as bad and to be avoided. In the world of education, the more mistakes a person makes, the less intelligent that person is thought to be.
My rich dad came from the streets. He had a different view on mistakes. To him, mistakes were opportunities to learn something new, something he did not know before. To him, the more mistakes a person made, the more the person learned. He often said, “There is a bit of magic hidden in every mistake. So the more mistakes I make and I take the time to learn from, the more magic I have in my life. ”
My rich dad constantly used the example of learning to ride a bicycle to reinforce the idea of the magic found inside of mistakes. He would say, “Just remember the frustration you went through as you struggled to learn how to ride a bicycle. All your friends are riding but all you are doing is climbing on the bike and immediately falling off. You make mistake after mistake. Then suddenly, you stop falling off , you begin to peddle, the bike begins rolling, and then suddenly like magic, a whole new world opens to you. That is the magic found in mistakes.”
Warren Buffet's Mistake
Warren Buffet, America's richest investor, is known and respected for his company Berkshire Hathaway. Today, Berkshire Hathaway's share price is one of the highest priced company shares in the world. While many investors value Berkshire Hathaway's stock, few people realize that acquiring Berkshire Hathaway was one of Warren Buffet's biggest investment mistakes.
When he acquired the company, Berkshire Hathaway was a shirt-manufacturing company that was slowly going out of business. Warren Buffet thought his team could turn the company around. Well as most of us know, textile manufacturing was dying in America and moving to other countries. It was a trend that even Warren Buffet could not go against, and the company eventually failed as a manufacturing company, even with Warren Buffet behind it. Yet, inside of this company failure, Warren Buffet found the gems that ultimately made him extremely rich. For those who are interested in this story, the book The Warren Buffet Way, by Robert Hagstrom, is most enlightening, giving the reader insights into one of the greatest investor minds in the world.
Other Mistakes
Another company, Diamond Fields, was formed to look for diamonds, which were never found. The company's head geologist had made a mistake. Yet, instead of finding diamonds , they struck one of the largest nickel deposits in the world. Their stock price soared upon the discovery. Today, although the name remains Diamond Fields, they make their money in nickel.
Levi Strauss headed for the gold fields of California to strike it rich in mining. However , he was not a good miner, so he instead began sewing pants out of canvas for the miners who were successful. Today, I think most of the world has heard of Levi's jeans.
It is said that Thomas Edison would never have invented the light bulb if he had been an employee for the company he ultimately founded—General Electric. It is said that Edison failed over 10, 000 times before finally inventing the light bulb. If he had been an employee of a major corporation, he would most likely have been fired for making so many mistakes.
Christopher Columbus's big mistake was that he was looking for a trade route to China and accidentally bumped into America, the richest, most powerful country in the world.
Street Smarts Versus School Smarts
My rich dad was so very successful financially for many reasons. At the top of the list was his attitude towards making mistakes. Like most of us, he hated making them, yet he was not afraid of making them. He would take risks simply to make a mistake. He would say, “When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it's time to make some mistakes.”
Several times, one of his businesses failed to get off the ground and he lost money. I have also seen him launch a new product only to have it be rejected by the marketplace. Yet each time he made a mistake, instead of being depressed, he often seemed happier, wiser, more determined, and even richer from the experience. He would say to his son and me, “Mistakes are how we learn. Every time I make a mistake, I always learn something about myself, I learn something new, and I often meet new people I would never have met.”
In one of his failed ventures, a plumbing distribution company, he met one of his future business partners . And from that failed plumbing business, they formed a friendship and partnership that went on to make tens of millions of dollars. He said, “If I had not taken the risk to form that business, I would never have met Jerry. And meeting Jerry is one of the most important events in my life. ”
My poor dad was an excellent student in school. He rarely made mistakes, which was why he had such high grades. The problem was that at age 50, he seemed to have made one of the biggest mistakes in his life and he could not recover from it.
As I watched my real dad struggle financially and professionally, my rich dad said, “To be successful in the real world of business , you have to be school smart as well as street smart. Your dad entered school at the age of 5. Because he had good grades, he stayed in school, eventually becoming the top man in the school system. Now at age 50, he is hitting the streets . . . and the streets are a very tough teacher. In school, you're given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it. Since most people have not been taught how to make mistakes and learn from them, they either avoid mistakes altogether , which is a bigger mistake, or they make a mistake but fail to find the lesson from the mistake. That is why you see so many people making the same mistake over and over again. They make the same mistake over and over again because they have never been taught how to learn from their mistakes. In school, you are considered smart if you don't make mistakes. On the street, you're smart only if you make mistakes and learn from them. ”
The Biggest Failure I Know
Rich dad said to Mike and me, “I am so rich because I 've made more financial mistakes than most people. Each time I made a mistake, I learned something new. In the business world, that something new is often called ‘experience.' But experience is not enough. Many people say they have a lot of experience because they keep making the same mistake over and over again. If a person truly learns from a mistake, his or her life changes forever, and what that person gains instead of experience is ‘wisdom. '” He went on to say, “People often avoid making
financial mistakes, and that is a mistake. They keep saying to themselves, ‘Play it safe. Don't take risks.' People may be struggling financially because they have already made mistakes and have not learned from the mistakes. So they get up every day, go to work, and repeat the mistake and avoid new mistakes, but they never find the lesson. These people often say to themselves, ‘I'm doing everything right, but for some reason, I'm not getting ahead financially.'” Rich dad's comment to that statement was, “They may be doing all the right things but the problem is that they are avoiding the wrong things —wrong things such as taking more risks. They are avoiding their weaknesses instead of confronting them. They are not doing something they may be afraid of doing, and consciously choosing to avoid making a mistake rather than make one. ” He also said, “Some of the biggest failures I know are people who have never failed.”
The Art of Making a Mistake
Instead of instructing his son and me to avoid mistakes, rich dad taught us the art of making a mistake and gaining wisdom from it.
During one of those lessons, rich dad said, “The first thing that happens after you make a mistake is that you become upset. Everyone I know gets upset. That is the first indication of a mistake,” said rich dad. “At this point of upset, you find out who you really are.”
What do you mean, “Who you really are?” asked Mike.
“Well at a moment of upset, we become one of these characters, ” rich dad said, going on to describe the cast of characters who are brought to center stage when upsets from mistakes occur:
1. The Liar. The liar will say such things as: “I didn't do that. ” Or “No, no, no. It wasn't me. ” Or “I don't know how that happened. ” Or “Prove it. ”
2. The Blamer. The blamer will say such things as: “It's your fault, not mine.” Or “If my wife didn't spend so much money, I would be better off financially.” Or “I would be rich if I didn't have you kids. ” Or “The customers just don't care about my products.” Or “Employees just aren't loyal anymore.” Or “You weren't clear in your instructions.” Or “It's my boss's fault. ”
3. The Justifier. The justifier says things such as: “Well, I don't have a good education so that is why I don't get ahead.” Or “I would have made it if I had had more time.” Or “Oh, I really didn't want to be rich anyway.” Or “Well, everyone else was doing it.”
4. The Quitter. The quitter says things such as: “I told you that it would never work.” Or “This is too hard and it's not worth it. I'm going to do something else easier. ” Or “Why am I doing this? I don't need this hassle.”
5. The Denier. Rich dad often called this person “the cat in the litter box,” which means this person tends to bury his or her mistakes. The person who denies that he or she has made a mistake often says things such as: “No, there is nothing wrong. Things are fine. ” Or “Mistake? What mistake?” Or “Don't worry. Things will work out.”
Rich dad said, “When people are upset due to a mistake or accident, one or more of these characters will take over their mind and body. If you want to learn and gain wisdom from this priceless mistake, you have to let The Responsible You eventually take control of your thinking. The Responsible You will eventually say, “What priceless lesson can I learn from this mistake?”
Rich dad went on to say, “If a person says, ‘What I learned is that I'll never do this again,' he or she probably has not learned much. Too many people live in a diminishing world because they continue to say, ‘I 'll never do that again' instead of saying, ‘I 'm glad that happened because I learned this or that from the experience.' Besides people who avoid mistakes or waste mistakes never see the other side of the coin. ”
I Slept Like a Baby
For example, after I lost my nylon and Velcro wallet business, I was upset for about a year . I slept like a baby during that year, which meant I woke up crying every two hours. I could hear my mind saying, “I should never have started the business. I knew it would fail. I'll never start a business again.” I also blamed a lot of people and found myself justifying my actions a lot, saying things such as, “It was Dan's fault” and “Well, I didn't really love the product.”
Instead of run from my mistake and get a job, rich dad had me face the mess I had made and begin to work my way out from under the pile of rubble that was once my business. Today, I say to people, “I learned more about business by failing than I ever did by being successful. Working through the wreckage and rebuilding the company made me a much better businessman.” Today, instead of saying, “I'll never do that again,” I say, “I'm glad I did fail and learn because I am grateful for the wisdom I gained.” And then I say, “Let's start another business. ” Instead of fear and resentment, there is excitement and fun. Instead of being afraid of failing, I now know that making mistakes is the way we were all designed to learn. If we fail to make mistakes, or make them and do not learn from them, the magic goes out of life. Life goes backward and gets smaller, instead of expansive and filled with magic.
I failed in high school twice because I could not write. To have my books on bestseller lists such as those of The New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, and
The Wall Street Journal is magical. It is ironic that I am well known for subjects I initially failed at: writing, business, selling, speaking, accounting, and investing. I am not known for the subjects that were easy and enjoyable for me: surfing, economics, rugby, and painting.
What Is the Lesson?
Whenever I hear people saying, “Investing is too risky” or “I don't like taking risks with my money” or “What if I fail?” or “What if I lose my money?” I am often reminded of my poor dad because what he was really saying was “I don't want to make a mistake.” As I said, in his world, the world of academics, people who made mistakes were considered stupid.
In rich dad's world, he viewed risk, mistakes, and failure as an integral part of human development. So instead of avoiding risk and mistakes, he learned to manage risk and mistakes. His view on mistakes was that a mistake was simply a lesson with emotions attached to it. He said, “Whenever we make a mistake, we become upset. An upset is our maker 's way of telling us that we need to learn something. It is a tap on our shoulder saying, ‘Pay attention. You have something important to learn. If you lie, blame, justify, or deny the upset, you waste the upset and will waste a precious gem of wisdom.'”
Rich dad taught me to count to ten if I was angry or to a hundred if I was very angry. After cooling off, I simply say, “I apologize” and never blame the other person, no matter how angry I am. If I blame, I give power to the other person. If I take responsibility for whatever happened, I will learn a precious lesson that I obviously needed to learn. If I lie, blame, justify, or deny, I learn nothing.
Rich dad also said, “Unsuccessful people blame the other person. They often want the other person to change, and that is why they stay upset for so long. They are upset because they fail to learn their personal lesson. Instead of being upset, such people should be grateful for the other person being there to teach them something they needed to learn.
“People come together to teach each other lessons. The problem is, we often do not know what lesson we are teaching. To be upset or hold a grudge against the other person is like being upset with your bicycle because you fell off once or twice while trying to learn something new, ” rich dad would say.
Mistakes Today
As I write, the stock market and real estate markets are climbing. Individuals who have never invested before are climbing into the market, most saying the same things. They say things like, “I have made so much money in the market. ” Or “I'm in early and the price has gone up 20%.” Those are often enthusiastic words of new investors, investors who have never lost in a down market. I am afraid that in a short while, many of these new investors who are now winning will find out what it feels like to make a mistake in the market. At that moment, we will see who the real investors are. As rich dad said, “It's not how much your investment goes up that matters, it's how much it can come down that is most important. Real investors must be prepared to profit as well as learn when things do not go as they want them to in the market. The best thing a market can teach you is how to learn from your mistakes.”
For me, learning to control my temper has been a lifelong process. So has the process of being willing to take risks, make mistakes, and be grateful for the other person—even though I may no longer speak to or do business with that person. When I reflect back on my life, I would say that it is this mental attitude that has made me the most money, has brought me the most success, and has ultimately allowed me to have the most magic in my life.
Mental Attitude Quiz
I learned from both dads that both school smarts and street smarts are important. Being intelligent is recognizing the differences between the two, or as rich dad said, “School smarts are important but street smarts make you rich.”
So the mental attitude questions are:
1. What are your attitudes to risk, making mistakes, and learning?
2. What are the attitudes of the people around you to risk, making
mistakes, and learning?
3. Are there still some financial, professional, or business upsets
that remain unresolved?
4. Are you still angry with someone else in regards to money?
5. And if you are upset with someone else or yourself, what lesson can you learn and be grateful for because you were courageous enough to have taken a risk and maybe learned something?
I always remember my rich dad saying, “I have so much money because I was willing to make more mistakes than most people and learn from them. Most people have not made enough mistakes or continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. Without mistakes and learning, there is no magic in life.”
ADDITIONAL NOTE:
This subject of the magic of mistakes is one of rich dad's most important lessons, especially in this brave new world we enter. It is the people who fear mistakes who will be left behind financially and professionally as the Information Age continues to pick up speed.
—I recently created an educational program on audiotape with Nightingale Conant titled “Rich Dad Secrets to Money, Business, and Investing,” which covers this very important lesson from rich dad. In my opinion, this educational product is for anyone wanting to learn how to overcome the fear of failing, the fear of making mistakes, or the fear of taking risks.
If you are interested in this product , you may order it from us or directly from Nightingale Conant . As Winston Churchill said, “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” |
http://olesiafx.com/Rich-Dad-s-Guide-To-Investing-What-The-Rich-Invest-In-Robert-Kiyosaki/18.Investor-lesson-15---the-magic-of-mistakes.html
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dnatree
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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Being alone mistakes were not mistakes, they were experiences that the Spirit used in a wonderful way. And there was no shame. A son of God would not enter into relationship if he knew the outcome vs what is promised by interpretation. But every relationship, especially with those wearing the American Veil there comes a point where You are denied the experience because of what it looks like even if that person understands Your true intent of heart is greater than those that would judge.
That point in the relationship I mark with the story of Adam and Eve and where eve took and believed 'that some things are considered evil and not to be tolerated". Relationship is a lie, Autonomy in this world is the birthright of every being/animal and is practiced by most all animals even if they have a mate. A specifically suffocating relationship even with parents leads to addictions that fill an emptiness of passion, I believe this is when one is punished for the sins of the suffocaters. While often those that play God with their interpretation believe they are rightious because they are better according to the interpretation. But the smallest of points will turn the tables.
Following the Spirit is quenched by the misunderstandings and fear of loved ones. And the bitterness of following interpretaton is what led the world astray from the original intent, which is freedom in the Spirit. Without true intent after an experience no fruit is given and a tree without fruit is cut down after a season.
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Brock
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Yes, and love comes in many fashions and denied out of love. Life is worth whispering about and shouting about. Life is absolute and endless, strong and weak, vulberable and brave. It is a combination! (((hugs Steve!!)))
I woke this morning and wondered whether Lebanon is ready to get bombed by their participation of bombing Israel?
Perhaps the end is near in Biblical man's heart believing there are no repercussions (repurcussions of shouting the wrong horn ie harmonics/ laying a crooked brick in financial greed) to negative actions, negative thoughts.
I'd like to focus on some healing of other countries for a change. Nicaragua has a lot of abused people and animals that need their chance to be healed. Personally, the middle east has been given ample opportunities to get their relationship with god/karma right.
I hope they wake up with out a flash of nuclear light!!! 
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I have been having synchs with those years following the Spirit in the bible. At that time I did not even pass a piece of paper on a sidewalk without picking it up and so because I felt I could not do what the law, Christianity seemed to say I really needed to know that all was well and START OVER again with the Spirit each time as I got lost almost everyday. Finding sanctuary in the synchs and feeling the closeness of Spirit in my life made me find what was meant by INFINITE MERCY. It turned out that it was not the "getting lost" or "making mistakes" that should be where the attention is like in religion and those fearful that seek to control others. Rather it was in "finding YOU fresh" in the "Path back home" from getting lost or falling into shame that became the layered pearl of "INFINITE GRACE". It taught me where to keep the perspective in order not to fall into the trap of shame and blame as those that hide behind religion.
Like Drinking, or other patterns that may lead to addiction I found that this CROSS was the path to KNOWING YOU.
Here is an explanation I wrote the other day thinking about those in my family that misunderstand my intentions with scripture and Christians.
They misunderstand,
They think I hate the bible and the prophets. Because I show the hypocrisy of judging while saying they are in Christ.
But rather I love the "YOU" that I came to know through the Stories of the prophets and Jesus. Just like the Millions of moments alone in synchronicity having experiences that layered into a tapestry or grew like a tree that I came to know more of YOU.
I came to see the Story of the Christ and of the Anti Christ is the story of all humans to some degree. The Story of the Christ is the path of the cross and the misunderstanding, anguish and shame of coming to know YOU.
While the Anti-Christ is the person following the letter and interpretations of men rather than getting truth from Spirit. Giving power to the beast or system that says it is "the way".
The letter devises a deluding influence from the writings of the past. It requires the Spirit to rightly divide the truth. Therefore it was written that the Spirit is contrary to the letter.
By nature we loose our way, and life is ever learning to recognise the path of love through the Spirit back to our home or sanctuary with YOU.
I have had synchs with many poems related to this of late in order to put this into words. Like each person having weaknesses that cause them to loose their way over and over rather than the law keeping them as the fearful wish, dead in separation.
Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of
leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your
vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come. Rumi
Sin is hiding like in religion. But to experience without shame and stay open to the Spirit is to live with "true intention of heart". And to experience the shame of being blamed by those who never knew You leads to suffering for the sake of knowing the Spirit.
Forever I failed and went back to YOU and YOU never mentioned it but only STARTED NEW once again as the sunrise teaches.
As I learned from the Spirit I came to understand why Jesus said to go to the Spirit and that those seeing would not see. For religion not knowing the truth of the Spirit condemns man without first humbling themselves to the Spirit.
The one that follows the Spirit will be unveiled and truthful to themselves and to the Spirit. While those hiding will say "But Jesus is the way" and reject You/YOU as they never really knew that it was YOU/Spirit Speaking when Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life" for when he also said "Go to the Spirit for the truth" they believe their minds can interpret this. But the smallest of points overlooked humbles the mind to the Spirit.
We cannot do it, we cannot save ourselves, neither by good deeds or interpretation, but only the Spirit can do this by our allowing. Here is a quote from Abraham Hicks "In the moment You let go of those oars 99 percent of the illness, if there is illness... is gone."
Sanctuary is being with YOU/my life. And all the things that we share in this santuary/home.
I was looking for an example of the Spirit of synchronicity in nature.
Synchs with Shangra La
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Brock
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What a great post and photo, Steven.
I walk with trees during their dreaming (leaf falling). Lifts me higher into the protection zone of spirit.
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My Experience last night
It is not those that seem to be able to be all that society exspects that will find true wealth but those that have lost their way and found it only to find their way over and over. Those that have fallen off the wagon with true intent of heart to find it. With great Passion and Belief in the Spirit, so much so that miracles happen. For everyone looses their way each day to some degree and it is not an interpretation that has the power to find the way but knowing the Spirit that is YOUR LIFE.
What is Passion and Belief but True Love. It is not those that keep the law or what is acceptable that have anything. But those that are a fountain of good because of love.
Love is that belief coupled with passion that SHE (the universe) responds to, and whatever You do in love then works. This love then makes even Your mistakes work for good and better than those that seek to punish You for their misunderstanding.
Without that adversity, I would not have sought YOU. If I had not sought to know YOU/the Spirit I would not have found how YOU really are and then I would not have used this understanding each day in my intentions. And when the time of trouble came I would not have continued to know YOU and be saved.
I do not worry about what I eat that it is perfect for the body for the person that pampers the body and does not allow the natural challenge does not allow the body also to find the passion and belief at the edge that keeps miracles happening.
A small point overlooked in the Story of Jesus is that Passion and Hurt that motivated a man to destroy the beast that was his own country/world for what happened to him was what was to happen to Isreal in order that it Start New.
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