Why study on the failures, if you want to succeed

We all strive to be successful in some areas: at work, in business, in sports, in the family - in general, in life. And, not knowing how to achieve this success, we begin to read the stories of celebrities, attend trainings, consult with successful people.

However, following this advice is only a small part of the people to achieve their goals. And those who manage to reach the top, they say that they do a lot of different and are a little more luck at some stage.

According to statistics, 90% of start-ups fail, 97% burn through the Forex traders, the unit at least something achieved in the sport. And note that about losers never told and not written, their errors are not analyzed in principle, that is a fallacy.

Those who have lost, go into oblivion, they were not invited to be interviewed, about them write books. There are only a mention on the Internet.

All offered glossy history of success of a project: Facebook, Apple, «Euroset».

And all under the pressure of marketing are starting to buy books of successful people, listen to their slogans, trying to repeat their sequence of actions, are expensive training. But often the way to achieve success is not working.

In fact, when you start to ask celebrities about their success, learn the nuances, they usually can not fully articulate their algorithm success. And virtually all of them say that much of their success - a matter of chance, just made the course or outside help. If in a simple way - luck.

When you want to succeed in your project, no matter what, start to study the history of a successful project, and the first thing to return to top: a look at the sequence of actions, whether they are bizarre, if they look look like a number of non-interacting solutions. Was not it silly spontaneous decisions, which are now taken for genius.

Also explore the projects that were started in the same time as "the greatest", why they failed, at what stage went, how many of these were projects.

We must learn to understand not only the success stories but also failures stories. Failures contain more information than the great history of victories, be it in business, internet projects, and sports. Everything before my eyes, much more data: solutions, deadlines, resources, niche... But everyone is trying to learn how to succeed as an example successful.

When you are trying to replicate the success of another person, they rarely take into account the fact that this road is in its reality, and not in yours, and therefore do not take into account many factors. And these factors over time can lead to the collapse of the project.

Always skeptical about the fact that you offer candy in colorful wrapper. Remember that before you many go on this way, and where are they? Lost, burned, never reached. Worth exploring why they left so and not otherwise.

Always analyze the circumstances of your life, do not blindly follow someone else's path.

The history of Sony PlayStation success

At the dawn of the creation of the most successful video game, in 1993-1994, when the world was ruled by Sega, and the Nintendo, we needed a new game, and technical capabilities. Sony has at the time had nothing to do with the game industry. In the industry it has invited both times, Nintendo, Sony entrusted by contract to create the hardware for your gaming console of new generation.

Due to this, Sony has gained useful data: information on financial turnover and technology statistics. And company executives realized that they wanted to create your own product - the new concept, different from the others.

All a matter of chance. But luck - this is only the beginning. Sony conducted an analysis of failed launches of other game consoles of the time. Attempts have already been and the Sega company, with their own disk format, and the Nintendo, with a large and expensive cartridges. Even Panasonic has released its console uninteresting games.

Here are the errors were in other companies:

• the complexity of the game joystick control;
• the high cost of the games and their carriers;
• insufficient number of interesting and diverse games;
• consoles made just for gamers, not for the whole family.

The Sony company took into account all of this to create a new console: the low price of the console and the games for it, the presence of the ordinary CD-drive, a huge number of games, ease of use - the prefix has become a multimedia center for the whole family.

Due to favorable conditions and start the analysis of the failures of others, Sony has had a huge success, and even Bill Gates later admitted this fact to the management of the Japanese company.

Failure - this is also a success if we learn something from her.

Malcolm Forbes

Do not underestimate the failure. If all the time to focus only on success, a lot of what is happening in the picture you just miss. See more widely, analyze their own and others' mistakes and do not go on about the marketing. Communicate with those whose projects and initiatives have failed - believe me, they can tell you a lot.