I’ve started this journey more times than I can count. Instead of serial entrepreneur I often categorize myself as a serial failure, even if others look at what I have done and view the results differently. When weighing success against failure the perspective that matters most is your own. Only you can manage your satisfaction. Only you can adjust your plan and act as you must, whether it is to resign yourself to failure and fail down, which is fall down. Or, grasp hold of the lesson and fail up, no matter how charged with punishment the scroll.

Failure and I are intimate and though I have a deep abiding hate for failure, its lessons are never lost on me. And just as the quote above from Colin Davis reminds me, I know with certainty that the road to success and the road to failure are almost the same, if not often enough they are exactly the same. Same damn road with potholes, rocks, boulders, and roadblocks of burden. Yes, they are the same road.

However, again failure is what we make of it, and with the appropriate tools and the right mindset we can harness the power of failure and make it our very own critical success. That, is the journey I want to start with whomever is willing to come with.

Let us embark on a journey towards critical success. Together, we can find that which we truly seek, not the floss and flash of materialism but rather whatever that thing is deep down inside that we know we are willing to sweat for, to bleed for, to damn near die for.

What is that thing we know we need, not believe we need? What is the thing we discern through the sincere application of critical thinking skills that brings clarity and satisfaction to our lives? What is the real thing that will make us smile? What is the thing that we know we can be happy with, live with, and be satisfied when we die that we have achieved? What is our true Critical Success?

The Aspiring Critical Thinker/Writer/Innovator, D.S. Brown