Success Comes from Charging through Failures

Even the best Rhinos will make mistakes and the more audacious your goals the bigger your mistakes will be!  The point to remember is that mistakes are the foundations of success.  You cannot be successful without having a string of failures in your past. Full grown Rhino's understand this and realize that Charging on and learning from the big and small failures is how you will become a huge success.

There are two ways to look at the world: the benevolent way (the Rhino way) or the pessimistic (Cow) way. The cow worldview takes a victim stance, seeing life as unfair, seeing the world oppressing them and observing nothing but obstacles preventing a happy, successful life. The cows expect problems and misery and that's exactly what they get. They see the world as hostile, negative and unfair.  As a result, their perception creates their reality.

Rhinos have positive worldview.  They see the world around them is filled with opportunities and possibilities. They look for the positive in all situations and they focus on positive events rather than negative setbacks.  Most importantly they see the universe as benevolent, conspiring to do good and help them achieve great things.  The benevolent universe approach helps the Rhino charge relentlessly at their dreams because they know that by following the Laws of the Jungle, the world will provide exactly what they need when they need it. It may not appear that everything is going to plan but the rhino knows if they continue to charge the right solution, the right rewards will present themselves. Rhinos approach their lives, their work, and their relationships with optimism, and a general attitude of positive expectations. They expect a lot of themselves and others, they are seldom disappointed.

Think and Act Like a Rhino... Eliminate Cow Thoughts

When you are charging through the jungle do not let cow thoughts penetrate your mind.  You will make mistakes its part of life in the jungle. When you make a mistake determine is it is worth your time to correct it or if you need to just move on. Sometimes you choose the wrong location for a business, hire the wrong employee or develop the wrong product.  Think with a Rhino mentality and determine if it is better for you to work through the crisis or if you should simply learn from the failure and charge on.

Eliminate Cow Actions

Failures and setbacks can allow the cow disease of inertia to set in according to Scott Alexander.  The worst result of failures is to develop cow fears, cow tendencies and then to take "safe" cow actions which might be no action at all.  Don't let fear of failures or actual failures paralyze you. Be aware of passive aggressive cow actions that become excuses preventing future success. You may have to fail 9 times to succeed on the 10th time. You may have to fail thousands of times before you are successful, just like Thomas Edison did.  Rhinos believe with positive emotion that eventually they will succeed if they continue to persist.  Cows hate change; Rhinos welcome change, mistakes and failures because they know standing still is the surest way to fail. A charging Rhino will out smart, out create and out last the Cow every time.

Learn from your mistakes, realize success will eventually be yours and charge into this benevolent universe.

Charge!
Dave