Author: Donald Latumahina / Source: Life Optimizer
When it comes to measuring someone’s potential in life, we are familiar with terms like Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and more recently Emotional Quotient (EQ). But there is another quality that’s also important. In fact, I believe that this is a key to living a successful life.
I’d call it Failure Quotient (FQ).What is Failure Quotient? Here is my definition:
Failure Quotient is a measurement of someone’s ability to fail intelligently.
Failure Quotient is about failing intelligently. It’s about being able to use failures to advance your life. The more you are able to do that, the higher your FQ is.
A good example is Thomas Edison. He failed no less than 10,000 times to invent the light bulb. He didn’t view them negatively, though. Instead, he viewed it as finding 10,000 ways that didn’t work. He used them to point him in the right direction.
Another example is Richard Branson. Talking about building a business, he said that “you’re not pushing the limits if everything you do turns into gold.” This is FQ in action.
Now, how would it be like if someone has a high FQ?
Here are eight characteristics of someone with a high FQ:
1. They experiment a lot.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. ~ Thomas J. Watson
If you want to succeed in life, you need to “double your rate of failure.” But how do you that? By experimenting a lot. That’s what someone with a high FQ does.
The fact is, if you go beyond your comfort zone and…
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