Over the years, successful parents, teens, tech gurus and business owners have developed an attitude of overcoming the failure syndrome. Failure means nothing when wealth becomes your identity. You will fail at some point in your life. Even so, you will experience betrayals, disappointments, hatred, rejection, and loss. But these experiences don't define you. They're simply hurdles that strengthen your faith for the upward drive.

One of the success scorecards is that you must learn to play down a failure by extending your mistake level. Investing in success habits means moving on quickly from failure. Do not argue for long whether you did the right thing or made a mistake. For a season and a reason, life happens to you.

The force of gravity acts on every object that wants to go up. If you must climb higher, you must experience the dragging pull. Something somewhere and somehow will want you to remain at your spot. If you must leave your current position, develop the skill to overcome the gravity force. It will take additional energy and determination to get past the pull-down force. These forces appear in different forms. It could be the loss of a job, natural disasters, divorce, loss of a loved one, setbacks, and more.

Think of failure as a necessity for your uplift. See it as a necessary qualifier for your next higher ground. Perhaps all you need to change your identity is a little mistake or failure experience. With the instinct of success found in this book, you can embrace failure and turn it into success by looking beyond your mistakes and shortcomings.