Overcoming Obstacles: How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Success

    There's been a lot written on the theme of failure and how essential it is to success. In a world where {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is given for people's accomplishments, failing feels dangerous. The fear of failure can stop people taking risks that might lead to success.

    Heidi Grant Halvorson, a psychologist, points out much of success is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} not on talent but on learning from your mistakes.

About half of the people in the world hold that ability in an area — be it creative or social skill — is natural. The other half believes, instead, that someone might have a preference or something — say painting or speaking foreign languages — but this ability can be improved through {#blank#}3{#/blank#} practice or training.

It's almost impossible to think rationally (理性地) while shouting at yourself, “I'm a failure”. But when you {#blank#}4{#/blank#} your thinking, you will probably see what you can control — your behavior, your planning, your reactions — and change them.

The primary {#blank#}5{#/blank#} between successful people and unsuccessful people is that the successful people fail more. If you see failure as a monster approaching you, take another look.

Success is as scary as failure. Researchers report that satisfaction grows on challenges. Think about it — a computer game you can always win is boring; one you can win {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, and with considerable effort, is fun. In pursuit of success, failure exposes areas that you need to {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. So the failure serves as a brick wall to test how you apply yourself to {#blank#}8{#/blank#} your objectives and how much you want them.

    There is a way to distinguish whether a failure {#blank#}9{#/blank#} you to double down or walk away, says Halvorson. If, when things get rough, you remain fascinated by your goal, you should keep going. If what you're doing is costing you too much time and energy or it's not bringing you joy, you should give a second thought to the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} of your goal and even set a new one.

    The Father of JD Printing

    About twenty years ago, the surgeons at the Wilford Hull medical center working to separate a pair of conjoined(连体的) twins thought that only one would be able to walk after the operation. After a model of the girls' bone structure was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} using 3D printing, however, they found a shared upper leg bone to be bigger than expected and split it successfully, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} in both twins being able to walk. Now eighty and still working as chief technology officer of 3D Systems. Chuck Hull is enjoying some minor {#blank#}3{#/blank#} 31 years after he first printed a small black eye-wash cup using a new method of manufacturing known as 3D printing.

    At the time, he was working for a company that used UV light to put thin layers of plastic coats on tabletops and {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. He had an idea that if he could place thousands of thin layers of plastic on top of each other and then cut their shape using light, he would be able to form three dimensional objects. After a year, he {#blank#}5{#/blank#} a system where light was shone into a bottle of photopolymer – a material which changes from liquid to plastic-like solid when light shines on it – and traces the shape of one level of the object. Subsequent layers are then printed until it is {#blank#}6{#/blank#}.

    After patenting the invention, he set up 3D Systems, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} getting $6m (£3.5m) from a Canadian investor. The first {#blank#}8{#/blank#} product came out in 1988 and proved a hit among car manufacturers, in the aerospace sector and for companies designing medical equipment. The possibilities appear endless – from home-printed food and medicine to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} that pictures of objects be able to be taken in shops and then recreated using plans downloaded from the Internet Although deliberate in his responses, there is one moment when the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} spoken Chuck Hull tells of his surprise about what exactly his creation was capable of achieving.